Since 1961, the Arizona State University Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies has amassed and preserved one the world’s largest meteorite collections 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.
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All year, we’ll post stories of new research initiatives, exciting outreach programs, conservation and growth of the Center’s invaluable meteorite collection.
We invite you to follow us on social media, and share your memories and photos of the Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies using #BCMS60.
BCMS60: Mr. Herbert G. FalesTo celebrate of 60 years of the BCMS, we’re posting stories of historical Center events, new research initiatives, exciting outreach programs, conservation and growth of the Center’s invaluable meteorite collection. We invite you to follow us on social media, and share your memories and photos of the Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies using #CMS60. In […] |
Celebrating ASU history: Carleton Moore, meteorites and moon rocksLooking back at history-making chemistry that's out of this world October 6, 2021 It was 60 years ago, in 1961, and the space race was on. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, followed weeks later by American astronaut Alan Shepard. President John F. Kennedy challenged the nation to land a man […] |
CMS60: The oldest sedimentary rock in the Solar System is a meteoriteIn 2017, Center Meteorite Curator Dr. Laurence Garvie published a ground-breaking paper in the journal Icarus. Co-authored with former Center Assistant Director and astrophysicist Dr. Melissa Morris and School of Earth and Space Exploration Professor (now Emeritus) and sedimentologist Dr. Paul Knauth, the paper (Sedimentary laminations in the Isheyevo (CH/CBb) carbonaceous chondrite formed by gentle […] |
CMS60: Dishchii’bikoh Ts’iłsǫǫsé TseeTo celebrate of 60 years of the Center for Meteorite Studies, we’re posting stories of historical Center events, new research initiatives, exciting outreach programs, conservation and growth of the Center’s invaluable meteorite collection. We invite you to follow us on social media, and share your memories and photos of the Center for Meteorite Studies using […] |
Bringing the Moon to ArizonaTo celebrate of 60 years of the Center for Meteorite Studies, we’re posting stories of historical Center events, new research initiatives, exciting outreach programs, conservation and growth of the Center’s invaluable meteorite collection. We invite you to follow us on social media, and share your memories and photos of the Center for Meteorite Studies using […] |
