After a two-year hiatus, Camp SESE made a triumphant 2022 return September 9-11. Historically this annual 3-day weekend retreat from the Tempe campus to the cooler climes of Tonto National Forrest has allowed first-year students in the School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) to get to know their fellow class members, and be welcomed…

DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) is NASA’s first planetary defense test mission, and will be the first-ever space mission to demonstrate asteroid deflection by kinetic impactor – impacting an asteroid to adjust its speed and path. On September 26, DART will intentionally crash into Dimorphos, the asteroid moonlet of Didymos, to slightly change its motion…

We had a great time answering your questions during the annual Ask A Museum event on social media – check out some of our favorites, below. Start prepping your questions for next year, and follow us on Twitter (@ASUMeteorites) for more online events! Click on the tweets below to see the full question and answer…

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Rhonda Stroud, who joins ASU this Fall as Director of the Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies and Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration.  Stroud comes to us from the US Naval Research Lab in Washington DC. Her research portfolio blends materials physics, planetary science and electron…

Catch up with Center alumni through this periodic feature! Dr. Cameron Mercer received his doctoral degree in 2017 from the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University (ASU), where his dissertation research focused on the “High Spatial Resolution 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology of Lunar Impact Melt Rocks.” For this work he used an ultraviolet…