Center for Meteorite Studies

2008 Nininger Meteorite Award Recipient

Posted May 28th, 2009 by mminitt

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.

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Meteorite of the Month

Bondoc

Posted October 1st, 2009 by rrhines

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November 2009

Bondoc is a mesosiderite found on the Bondoc Peninsula, Philippines, and obtained by H.H. Nininger in 1962. Over 850 kg of the meteorite was recovered, 550 kg of which is now housed at the Center for Meteorite Studies.

Bondoc is an extremely unusual, heterogeneous, brecciated meteorite consisting of a silicate matrix of cumulate pyroxene with interstitial plagioclase and clasts of pyroxenite and dunite, together with metal nodules and minor troilite.

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