Earth and Space Exploration Day is Friday, October 4th from 6PM to 9PM: Visit the Meteorite Gallery and hold a rock from space! Discover interactive exhibits in the Gallery of Scientific Exploration! Take in a 3-D astronomy show in the Marston Exploration Theater! See a replica of the Curiosity Mars Rover! So much more! Click […]
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New papers on the Tarda meteorite by Center researchers!
A new paper on the Tarda and Tagish Lake meteorites by BCMS Deputy Director Devin Schrader and colleagues (including Center Alumns Jemma Davidson, Zack Torrano, and Greg Brennecka) shows how similar they both are, and suggests that D-type and P-type asteroids may be fragments of the same parent body. We also identified potential parent asteroid sources […]
BCMS at 2024 Meteoritical Society meeting
This July, members of the Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies will present new findings at the annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society, held in Brussels, Belgium. The Center’s research presentations cover a range of topics in meteoritics and cosmochemistry, including presolar grains, lunar meteorites, samples returned from asteroids, carbonaceous chondrites, the solar wind, mineralogy, and […]
Center hosts Microparticle Handling Workshop!
In conjunction with the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) and the NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC), Center Director Rhonda Stroud and her research group hosted the Small Sample Handling workshop in early June. Because the study and analysis of extraterrestrial samples play a crucial role in advancing our understanding of our Solar System, and given […]
Mapping the trapped solar wind He in nanophase Fe metal with electron microscopy.
Lunar soils contain helium implanted as high energy ions from the solar wind, but not all soils grains retain helium equally. Better understanding of the helium retention could enable its use as resource for future lunar missions. In a new paper published in the scientific journal Communications Earth & Environment, Center Director Rhonda Stroud and […]
