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  • ASU Astronomy Open House Voted Best of Phoenix!

    ASU's Astronomy Open House has been designated "best place to catch a meteor shower" by the Phoenix New Times, and presented with a Best of Phoenix 2011 Award!

    The Astronomy Open House takes place the last Friday of every month during the ASU school term, on the roof of the Bateman Physical Sciences H-Wing (ASU Tempe Campus), and features telescopes pointed at celestial objects of...

  • CMS Director Featured in AZ Republic!

    The Director of the ASU Center for Meteorite Studies, Dr.

  • CMS Acquires Newest Martian Meteorite!

    The ASU Center for Meteorite Studies has acquired a piece from the only observed martian meteorite fall in 50 years!  

  • CMS Founding Director Featured in the State Press!

    The Founding Director of the ASU Center for Meteorite Studies, Dr.

  • Mars Science Laboratory Off to Mars!

    NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission made a safe and spectacular departure from Earth on Saturday, November 26 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Both the Atlas 541 booster and the Centaur upper stage performed flawlessly, injecting the MSL rover, named Curiosity, into a...

  • Near-Earth asteroid flyby November 8th!

    This Tuesday, November 8th, asteroid 2005 YU55 will fly past the Earth, passing inside the Moon's orbit along the way.  This 1300-foot (400-meter) asteroid was first discovered in 2005 using Arizona's Steward Observatory Spacewatch Telescope.  As this will be the closest flyby of an object this large since 1976, and will not be repeated until 2028, scientists and observers around the...

  • 2011 Nininger Meteorite Award

    The Arizona State University Center for Meteorite Studies is pleased to announce  the 2011 application opportunity for the Nininger Meteorite Award.

  • CMS 50th Anniversary Celebration Video!

    Since 1961, the Arizona State University Center for Meteorite Studies has amassed and preserved the world's largest university-based collection of meteorites to enable research in planetary science and cosmochemistry, and to inspire students, educators, and the general public to learn about the Solar System and our place in it.

  • New Flyover Video of Asteroid Vesta!

    NASA has released new video of asteroid Vesta...

  • Earth's mantle composition influenced by meteorites?

    A new study in the journal Nature provides evidence that a late addition of chondritic meteorite material influenced the composition of the Earth's mantle.  This late addition, popularly known as the "late veneer", is believed to have been added to Earth ~4 billion years ago.  The results of the study suggest that the late veneer enhanced the concentration of siderophile (or iron-...