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RECENTLY, Derham and Geake1 discovered that bombarding a certain kind of stony meteorites (achondritic enstatite) by a proton beam of 40 keV caused a strong luminescence of the material over a broad range of wavelengths near 6700 Å.
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ANAND, S., OSTER, L. & SOFIA, S. Excitation of Lunar Luminescence by Solar Protons. Nature 202, 1097–1098 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2021097a0
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