Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

Celebrate World Space Week with a visit to the Meteorite Gallery at the Center for Meteorite Studies!  Find out where meteorites come from and how planets form! Discover what scientists are learning from meteorites – right here at ASU! Touch real meteorites! World Space Week is an international celebration of science and technology, and their…

Dr. Melissa Morris, who until recently served as Assistant Director of the CMS, began an appointment as of September 1, 2014, as Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the State University of New York in Cortland. Dr. Morris, whose research interests are primarily  in understanding early solar system processes through astrophysical modeling, received…

This September, graduate students Prajkta Mane (Ph.D. candidate) and Kera Tucker (M.S. candidate) represented the Center at the 77th annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society, in Casablanca, Morocco. Mane's presentation focusses on Zr isotope systematics of Allende CAIs (Calcium-Aluminum-rich Inclusions), and Tucker discussed hydrogen isotope systematics of maskelynite in the Los Angeles shergotite. The Meteoritical…

A new study of the martian meteorite NWA 7533 ("Black Beauty") has concluded that, while water was more abundant on Mars 4.5 billion years ago, the martian surface has been dry and desert-like for at least 1.7 billion years. Using isotopes found in the mineral zircon, researchers were able to utilize meteorite NWA 7533 to…

Pull out your telescope if you'd like to see the newly discovered asteroid 2014RC this Sunday, September 7th!  The 60-foot-wide (20 metre) Near Earth Asteroid was identified by both the Catalina Sky Survey and Pann-STARRS1 telescopes earlier this week, and will come within 25,000 miles (40,000 km) of our home planet this weekend. Read more…