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…

The Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University is pleased to announce the application opportunity for the 2021-22 Nininger Meteorite Award for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing research in meteoritical sciences. The Nininger Meteorite Award recognizes outstanding student achievement in the meteoritical sciences as embodied by an original research paper.  Papers must cover…