April’s Meteorite of the Month is L’Aigle, an ordinary (L6) chondrite that fell in Orme, France on April 26, 1803. The L’Aigle meteorite fall, which produced a shower of over 3,000 stones, proved to European scientists that rocks fall from the sky. Although people had seen meteorites fall before 1803, their stories had typically been […]
New research in the Center!
This month, members of the Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies presented new findings at the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) held in Houston, Texas. The presented research covers a range of topics in meteoritics and cosmochemistry, including presolar grains, lunar meteorites, samples returned from asteroids, carbonaceous chondrites, the solar wind, mineralogy, and isotope […]
Thank you Sun Devil Nation!
From all of us at the ASU 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! […]
Norton County
Norton County fell February 18th of 1948, on the Kansas/Nebraska border. Norton County is a rare type of meteorite called an aubrite, which is an enstatite achondrite. Aubrites are dominated by enstatite – a pyroxene mineral containing Mg, Si, and O. This mineral is white in Norton County, as opposed to the more normal green […]
2024 Nininger Travel Award recipients announced
The Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies and School of Earth and Space Exploration are pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Nininger Student Travel Award. The goal of this award is to support attendance of the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) for at least 4 undergraduate and/or graduate students to present their […]
