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Happy anniversary, Genesis mission!

Happy 20th anniversary to NASA’s Genesis sample return mission! On September 8, 2004, the Genesis Solar Wind sample return mission delivered captured solar wind particles to Earth. The landing was unexpectedly spectacular because an arrow on the design for the return capsule was drawn backwards; the pressure sensor never registered Earth’s atmosphere, and the capsule’s […]

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Benld

Benld is an ordinary chondrite (H6) that fell the morning of September 29th, 1938, in Macoupin County, Illinois.  The Benld meteorite was only the second meteorite recovered in Illinois (there are now 10 recognized meteorites from the state), and its fall was quite spectacular.  The meteorite was described by B.H. Wilson in Popular Astronomy (1938) […]

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Center welcomes inaugural BCMS Meteorite Studies Postdoctoral Fellow!

The Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies is pleased to welcome Dr. Ren Marquez! Marquez is the very first BCMS Meteorite Studies Postdoctoral Fellow. He has extensive experience in ultra-low-blank laboratory techniques for analyzing small meteorite samples, which he used during his PhD at the California Institute of Technology to study presolar precursors in primitive meteoritic […]

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