19 Oct 2012 CMS Assistant Director Melissa Morris, was featured on FOX 10 news Friday, October 19th, discussing the Orionid Meteor Shower.  You can watch the full interview here!

14 Sep 2012 The Fall 2012 edition of the CMS Newsletter is here!  Read about the Center’s move to the new ISTB4 building, Meteorite Gallery grand opening, new collection acquisitions, and the 2011 Nininger Award winners! You can download the PDF (675 KB) here or read it online here.  Enjoy!

6 Aug 2012 NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), nicknamed Curiosity, has touched down on Mars! Curiosity is the largest of the Mars rovers to date and, as such, required a series of very complex techniques to see it safely land on the planet’s surface – all in the span of 7 minutes.  Viewers around the…

3 Aug 2012 NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), nicknamed Curiosity, is scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet this Sunday, August 5, at 10:30 PM (PDT).  Curiosity is the largest of the Mars rovers to date and, as such, will require a series of very complex techniques to see it safely land on the…

3 Aug 2012 The Center for Meteorite Studies is pleased to announce that David Baker, a graduate student at Brown University, has been awarded the 2011 Nininger Meteorite Award.   Matthew Wielicki, a graduate student at the University of California Los Angeles, and Devin Schrader, a graduate student at the University of Arizona, both received…