Mineral ‘carletonmooreite’ named for founder of ASU Center for Meteorite StudiesThis story originally appeared in ASU News. A new mineral has been named for Arizona State University Emeritus Regents Professor Carleton Moore, the founding director of ASU’s Center for Meteorite Studies. The mineral, named “carletonmooreite,” was found in a large, rare type of meteorite that fell in February 1948 in Norton County, Kansas. School of… |
2021 Nininger Student Travel Award recipients announcedThe Center for Meteorite Studies and the School of Earth and Space Exploration are pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 Nininger Student Travel Award. This year, the Nininger Student Travel Award will support virtual attendance to the 2021 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) of at least 4 School of Earth and Space… |
New research on CV and CK meteorite classificationCenter for Meteorite Studies alumn Dr. Zachary Torrano, Center Assistant Research Scientist Dr. Jemma Davidson, and former Center Director Prof. Meenakshi Wadhwa are co-authors of a new paper recently published in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science. The article, “A reclassification of Northwest Africa 2900 from CV3 to CK3 chondrite”, re-evaluates the classification of Northwest… |
Researcher Spotlight: Devin SchraderGet to know Center researchers with this periodic feature! Dr. Devin Schrader is the Interim Director of the ASU Center for Meteorite Studies (CMS) and an Associate Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE). His research focuses on the study of primitive meteorites that have remained relatively unaltered since they formed in… |
