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…

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…

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…

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…

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…