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Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

2024 Nininger Travel Award recipients announced

The Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies and School of Earth and Space Exploration are pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Nininger Student Travel Award. The goal of this award is to support attendance of the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) for at least 4 undergraduate and/or graduate students to present their […]

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Nanoglobules, nanodiamonds and clay flakes: Mineral-organic matter relationships in Hayabusa2 samples from Asteroid Ryugu

Center Director Rhonda Stroud is lead author on newly published findings from the Hayabusa2 Initial Analysis Macromolecular Organics and Fine-grained Mineralogy Teams which reveal the composition, morphology and functional chemistry of organic matter in Asteroid (162173) Ryugu samples through transmission electron microscopy (TEM).   These TEM studies show the Ryugu organic matter to be very […]

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Center hosts Presolar Grain Workshop

This January 20 and 21, the ASU Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies (BCMS) hosted the 2024 Presolar Grain Workshop (PSG), organized by School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) Professor Larry Nittler and BCMS Director Rhonda Stroud, with help from BCMS Postdoctoral Scholar Imène Kerraouch and SESE Graduate Student Anuva Anannya.   The PSG Workshop […]

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Sun Devil Giving Day is March 21

March 21 is Sun Devil Giving Day – 24 hours to show the world what you can accomplish when you join forces to support Arizona State University and the Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies (BCMS)! Every dollar counts, and your gift helps support our pursuit of new knowledge about the origin of our Solar System […]

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Center Student at NASA Space Grant Poster Session

At this year's NASA Space Grant Student Poster Session, Center undergraduate Sam Campbell presented research on Making Meteorites Accessible.   Sam is a NASA Space Grant student working with Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies Director Rhonda Stroud to expand public outreach, while working towards a Bachelor's Degree in Astrobiology and a certificate in Planetary Science […]

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