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Best Wishes to Dr. Melissa Morris!

Dr. Melissa Morris, who until recently served as Assistant Director of the CMS, began an appointment as of September 1, 2014, as Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the State University of New York in Cortland. Dr. Morris, whose research interests are primarily  in understanding early solar system processes through astrophysical modeling, received […]

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Center Students Present Research in Morocco!

This September, graduate students Prajkta Mane (Ph.D. candidate) and Kera Tucker (M.S. candidate) represented the Center at the 77th annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society, in Casablanca, Morocco. Mane's presentation focusses on Zr isotope systematics of Allende CAIs (Calcium-Aluminum-rich Inclusions), and Tucker discussed hydrogen isotope systematics of maskelynite in the Los Angeles shergotite. The Meteoritical […]

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Pallasite Meteorite Dedicated to ASU Class of 2018!

The Center for Meteorite Studies and School of Earth & Space Exploration have dedicated a 381g piece of the Seymchan pallasite to the incoming class of 2018!  According to Center Director Meenakshi Wadhwa, “this meteorite was obtained especially for the purpose of dedicating to, and inspiring, the Class of 2018.  We wanted to give them […]

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