The Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University invites applications for 2 Postdoctoral Research Associates. Click here for details! […]
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Congratulations Dr. Cameron Mercer!
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 […]
Center to participate in Blue Star Museums program!
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 […]
2016 Nininger Meteorite Award Recipient Announced!
The ASU Center for Meteorite Studies is pleased to announce that Emily Worsham, a graduate student at the University of Maryland, is the recipient of the 2016 Nininger Meteorite Award. Emily's paper “Siderophile element systematics of IAB complex iron meteorites: New insights into the formation of an enigmatic group” (coauthored by Katherine Bermingham, and Richard […]
The Arizona Fireball Has a Name!
Far out in the asteroid belt, more than 200 million miles from Earth, an asteroid the size of a Volkswagen Beetle lazily orbited the sun. Then something — we’ll never know what — disturbed it. It was knocked out of its orbit into an elliptical orbit. It swung closer and closer to the sun. Then, […]
