Witnesses from across the western states including Idaho, Utah and Arizona reported seeing a massive fireball streaking across the midnight sky on November 18.  An NBC affiliate in Salt Lake City, Utah filed a report on the fireball here.

The Arizona State University State Press newspaper featured the Center for Meteorite Studies "Meteorite Dig" activity in its article about the "Stars Over Spectrum" event on October 3 at the Christown Spectrum Mall in Phoenix.  About 1000 people attended the event and enjoyed space-related displays from the ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration's Mars Education Program and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera team as well as the "World at Night" photo exhibit.

CMS Director Dr. Meenakshi Wadhwa was recently featured in an episode of the History Channel program "The Universe" entitled "It fell from space".  The episode first aired September 1st, and highlighted the many manmade and natural space objects that have hit Earth since its formation, including meteorites. You can catch the episode again when it airs September 15th and 16th, or watch it online here.

Center for Meteorite Studies Director Dr. Meenakshi Wadhwa was interviewed August 20th, by the BBC, for an episode of the Radio 4 programme "Questions, Questions" featuring meteor showers and meteorites. 

Founding CMS Director Carleton Moore was interviewed by the NBC affiliate in Phoenix (KPNX Channel 12) about the role that the CMS and Meteor Crater played in preparing the Apollo astronauts for their exploration of the Moon. Moore featured some of the CMS's specimens in the interview, including the lunar meteorite NWA 482. View a clip of the video here.

Founding Director of the Center for Meteorite Studies, Dr. Carleton Moore, was among the select team of scientists chosen to analyze the samples brought back from the Apollo missions to the Moon.  He and his colleagues analyzed samples from the first Moon mission, Apollo 11, right on ASU's Tempe Campus!  The Arizona Republic featured Dr. Moore's involvement in a July 17 article. You can also read more about Dr. Moore and the lunar sample analyses in the

The Center for Meteorite Studies is pleased to announce that Nicholas Moskovitz, a graduate student at the University of Hawaii, is the recipient of the 2008 Nininger Meteorite Award! Nick's paper, "The distribution of basaltic asteroids in the Main Belt", was published in Icarus in 2008.  You can read more about Nick's paper and the Nininger Meteorite Award on the CMS Nininger Meteorite Award webpage.

National Public Radio's program "All Things Considered" considered the question "why are meteorites so expensive?" on their May 12, 2009 program.  You can listen to the segment here.  The meteorite mentioned in the correction to the story, Sylacauga, is featured in the CMS Museum! 

Highlights of the Center's collection and the Center's activities at the 2008 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Homecoming Block Party were featured on the ASU News webpage.

The Center was featured in the October 2008 issue of Astronomy Magazine. Writer Raymond Shubinski profiled Director Meenaskshi Wadhwa and highlighted the curation, research and outreach activities of the Center.