Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

Rocks from Space: Tales of Life and Death in the Solar System The 2014 Eugene Shoemaker Memorial Lecture will be presented by Center for Meteorite Studies Director Meenakshi Wadhwa, Thursday, November 20th. Details and reservations are available here!

A team of 14 scientists led by David Williams of Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration has completed the first global geologic and tectonic map of the asteroid Vesta. The work reveals that Vesta's history has been dominated by impacts from large meteorites. The mapping was carried out using images from NASA's…

The Center for Meteorite Studies is pleased to welcome Dr. Julia Cartwright as a Post Doctoral Scholar.  Dr. Cartwright received her Ph. D. from the University of Manchester, and recently completed a post doctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology.   Dr. Cartwright's research interests include the use of noble gases and halogens to…

The most accurate laboratory measurements yet made of magnetic fields trapped in grains within a primitive meteorite are providing important clues to how the early solar system evolved. The measurements point to shock waves traveling through the cloud of dusty gas around the newborn Sun as a major factor in solar system formation. The results…

The Philae lander has separated from the Rosetta space craft and safely landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko! Philae has spent the last ten years aboard Rosetta, travelling the 405 million kilometres (just over 251 million miles) between Earth and the spacecraft's cometary destination. The Rosetta orbiter will now act as a relay between Philae and the…