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...The team that found the manganese silicide was led by NASA scientist Keiko Nakamura...provided documentation for the International Mineralogical Association to declare the specimen [discovered in a particle from a comet] to be a new mineral...asked that it be named for Brownlee.
"This really did surprise me because I know it took a lot of effort to get this mineral approved," Brownlee said....
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