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astrogeology

[‚as·trō‚jē′äl·ə·jē]

(astronomy)

The science that applies the principles of geology, geochemistry, and geophysics to the moon and planets other than the earth.

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Rice's neighborhood graduated from high school, but he earned a doctorate and became an astrogeologist.

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Shoemaker, the greatest astrogeologist of our time, was killed last July 18th in a head-on vehicular crash in the remote Australian outback near Alice Springs.