Season’s Greetings!Compliments of the Season and best wishes for the New Year, from the Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies! This photograph shows an area of metal in Oued Bourdim 001 stain-etched with sodium bisulfite. The kamacite is stained a kaleidoscope of colors…. |
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… |
Where are we now? Prajkta ManeCatch up with Center alumni through this periodic feature! Dr. Prajkta Mane received her doctoral degree in 2016, from the ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration. Her dissertation research in the Center (Isotopic Investigations of Meteoritic Materials: From Earliest-Formed Solids to Planetary Bodies) focused on the beginning of our Solar System, including events such… |
ASU Center for Meteorite Studies named in honor of acclaimed researcher Peter BuseckNovember 17, 2021 Regents Professor Peter Buseck has an enduring and productive relationship with Arizona State University’s Center for Meteorite Studies. Founded in 1961, the center is one of ASU’s first established research institutes and houses one of the world's largest university-based meteorite collections. Over the past 60 years, meteorites from the collection have been… |
