Online meteorite K-12 resources

Posted on April 7, 2020 by Center for Meteorite Studies

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Want to learn about Advances in Cosmochemistry Enabled by Antarctic Meteorites? Read the new review paper by Wadhwa et al. (2020), co-authored by @ASUMeteorites Interim Director Dr. Devin Schrader, for #free here: http://www.annualreviews.org/eprint/BECPGDRCGWG9J26YQBR8/full/10.1146/annurev-earth-082719-055815
#meteorite #chondrite @SESEASU @ASU

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HAYABUSA2@JAXA@haya2e_jaxa·

24 May

Today (5/25), Hayabusa2 achieved 2000 days of space flight & passed the mid-point for the return trip! The remaining distance is ~400 million km. Ion engines & flight course are good. Operations continue, hoping that Ryugu’s treasure will arrive at a peaceful Earth --PM Tsuda.

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ASU Meteorites @ASUMeteorites·

22 May

Read the new paper by Fu et al. (2020) in @jgrplanets, co-authored by @ASUMeteorites Interim Director Dr. Devin Schrader. Weak Magnetic Fields in the Outer Solar Nebula Recorded in CR Chondrites. #meteorite #chondrite #science
https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JE006260

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NHM Meteorites @NHM_Meteorites·

21 May

We use #infrared #spectroscopy to analyse #meteorites. Information gained in the #lab helps us to interpret #asteroid spectra obtained from #spacecraft and #telescope. We recently had two new #papers out on the spectra of #hydrated #carbonaceous #chondrites

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ASU Meteorites @ASUMeteorites·

12 May

May's #MeteoriteoftheMonth is Zhob, an ordinary (H3-4) chondrite that fell the evening of January 9, 2020, near Baluchistan, #Pakistan. #meteorite #ASU #SESE
More info: https://meteorites.asu.edu/meteorites/zhob

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