1. Cutting-edge research on understanding the origin of our Solar System and planets, including the pathways to forming habitable worlds.
2. Curation and distribution of one of the finest meteorite collections in the world.
3. Broad dissemination of the latest scientific results and education at local, national and global scales.
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BCMS Researcher Visits the UK’s Winchcombe MeteoriteBCMS undergraduate researcher, Xeynab Mouti Al-Hashimi, recently visited London’s Natural History Museum (NHM) where the UK’s latest meteorite fall, Winchcombe, is currently on display. The Winchcombe meteorite, a carbonaceous chondrite, fell in Gloucestershire, England on February 28th, 2021. Fragments were quickly recovered in the village of Winchcombe, some of which were found within twelve hours […] |
Where are we now: Daniel DunlapCatch up with Center alumni through this periodic feature! Dr. Daniel Dunlap received his doctoral degree in 2019, from the ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration. His Center research and dissertation (Chronology of Planetesimal Differentiation Based on the Timing of Achondrite Formation in the Early Solar System) focused on timescales of igneous activity in […] |
Thank you, Sun Devil Nation!From all of us at the Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies, sincere and heartfelt thanks to everyone who supports our mission – on Sun Devil Giving Day, and every other day. We couldn’t do it without you! […] |
Where are we now: Karen RieckCatch up with Center alumni through this periodic feature! Dr. Karen Rieck has been analyzing solar wind samples from the NASA Genesis mission, using secondary ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS) since 2008 to understand the elemental and isotopic fractionation of the solar wind in order to use Genesis samples to determine the true solar photospheric composition […] |
