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Buseck Symposium on Solar System Exploration by Spacecraft and Microscope

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This spring, the Center hosted the Buseck Symposium on Solar System Exploration by Spacecraft and Microscope, addressing the synergy between space exploration and laboratory study of planetary materials. This symposium celebrated the renaming of the Center for Meteorite Studies in honor of Regents Professor Peter R. Buseck, and opened the call for applications for the inaugural BCMS Postdoctoral Fellowship in Meteorite Studies.

Keynote talks were be presented by Laurie Leshin (JPL Director & former Center for Meteorite Studies Director) and by Richard Zare (Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor, Stanford), and the speaker list featured several Center and ASU alumni.

The symposium also included a poster session (click here to view abstracts), and an optional guided daytrip to Meteor Crater in northern Arizona.

Thanks to all who traveled from near and far to celebrate with us!

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Center directors past and present. L-R: Laurie Leshin, Meenakshi Wadhwa, Rhonda Stroud, Michelle Minitti, Devin Schrader. Photo ASU/BCMS.
L-R: Laurie Leshin, Laurence Garvie, Michelle Minitti. Photo ASU/BCMS.
Symposium speakers and guests are treated to a behind-the-scenes tour of the meteorite vault by curator Laurence Garvie. Photo: ASU/BCMS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stunning view across Meteor Crater. Photo: ASU/BCMS.
Day trip participants prepare to hike the rim of Meteor Crater. Photo: ASU/BCMS.
Hiking the rim of Meteor Crater. Photo: ASU/BCMS.