13 Jan 2012 The Founding Director of the ASU Center for Meteorite Studies, Dr. Carleton Moore, is featured in the January 13 edition of the State Press.  The article focusses on Moore’s extensive research and collection-building activities in the Center, from 1961 to the present day.  Read the article here, and learn more about the…

1 Dec 2011 NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission made a safe and spectacular departure from Earth on Saturday, November 26 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Both the Atlas 541 booster and the Centaur upper stage performed flawlessly, injecting the MSL rover, named Curiosity, into a stable trajectory toward Mars. The Center for Meteorite…

4 Nov 2011 This Tuesday, November 8th, asteroid 2005 YU55 will fly past the Earth, passing inside the Moon’s orbit along the way.  This 1300-foot (400-meter) asteroid was first discovered in 2005 using Arizona’s Steward Observatory Spacewatch Telescope.  As this will be the closest flyby of an object this large since 1976, and will not…

Since 1961, the Arizona State University Center for Meteorite Studies has amassed and preserved the world’s largest university-based collection of meteorites to enable research in planetary science and cosmochemistry, and to inspire students, educators, and the general public to learn about the Solar System and our place in it. The Center recently marked our 50th…

23 Sep 2011 – 15:55 NASA has released new video of asteroid Vesta, taken by the orbiting Dawn spacecraft.  The video, compiled from images collected by Dawn’s framing camera, shows a flyover view of the large asteroid, detailing features such as craters, mountains, cliffs and troughs.  Dawn has been in orbit around Vesta since July…