This July, members of the Center for Meteorite Studies joined colleauges from around the world to present new findings at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (MetSoc) held in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Center's presentations covered a broad range of topics in meteoritics and cosmochemistry, including carbonaceous chondrites, the solar wind, meteorite…

Congratulations to Center Assistant Director Devin Schrader for having an asteroid named in his honor! Asteroid (117581) Devinschrader was discovered in 2005 by Mount Lemmon Survey at Mount Lemmon, Arizona.   From the June, 2017 Minor Planet Circular: Devin Schrader … is a meteoriticist and cosmochemist, and is Assistant Director of the Center for Meteorite…

The Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University invites applications for 2 Postdoctoral Research Associates.  Click here for details!

Congratulations to Dr. Cameron Mercer, who successfully defended his doctoral thesis June 13th!  Dr. Mercer will next undertake a post-doctoral position in ASU's School of Earth & Space Exploration, performing thermochronological research in the Rocky Mountains.   High Spatial Resolution 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology of Lunar Impact Melt Rocks Impact cratering has played a key role in…

The Center's Meteorite Gallery is one of more than 2,000 museums across America to offer free admission to military personnel and their families this summer in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, and the Department of Defense   Blue Star Museums is a collaboration among the National Endowment for the…