The Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University is pleased to announce the application opportunity for the 2016 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…

Delve into current research at the Center with this periodic news feature, and catch a glimpse of what our students and scientists are working on right now! Ph.D. Candidate Emilie Dunham is melting a mixture of oxide powders in a platinum crucible to make a new standard for SIMS (Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry) analysis of…

Delve into current research at the Center with this periodic news feature, and catch a glimpse of what our students and scientists are working on right now! The Center recently installed a new Aridus II Desolvating Nebulizer System; this highly specialized sample introduction equipment is used to increase analyte element sensitivity during isotopic analysis of…

San Francisco Mountains, IVA iron meteorite.  Image ⓒ ASU/CMS.

To welcome this year’s incoming ASU freshmen, the Center for Meteorite Studies has partnered with the School of Earth and Space Exploration to dedicate a meteorite to the Class of 2020. The Class of 2020's meteorite is actually a collection of spheres cut from the Gibeon iron meteorite.  Gibeon was found in Namibia, in 1836,…