Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

Astronomy Day was May 10th, but you can celebrate it all year with these great activities! Impact Craters Grades: 4-12   Impact craters are formed when impactors such as meteorites smash into the Moon's surface. Explore the many factors that affect the appearance of impact craters include the size and velocity of the impactor and…

Center for Meteorite Studies Director Meenakshi Wadhwa was recently interviewed for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation program "The Science Show".  You can listen to her walking tour of the meteorite collection here!  

Krähenberg is an ordinary (LL5) chondrite that fell May 5, 1868, in the Rheinland-Pfalz region of Germany.  The meteorite’s fall to Earth was well-witnessed, and described by English chemist Walter Flight in his 1875 publication History of Meteorites: "A single stone was seen to fall, the sky being clear and bright.  The noise of the…

FOR:  Arizona middle and high school science teachers and informal educators   DATE OF EVENT:  June 24-26, 2014   PLACE:  ISTB4 Building, Arizona State University (Tempe Campus) and the Arizona Museum of Natural History COST:  $75* APPLY ONLINE AT:  http://www.vftteacherworkshop.com *Fee covers meals, parking, materials and on-campus housing (for those who need it) Space is…

Some fun meteorite facts related to the blue planet! Up to 300 tons of space dust (including micrometeorites) fall to Earth every day.  In fact, so much cosmic dust ends up in our atmosphere that an international research project called CODITA (COsmic Dust In the Terrestrial Atmosphere) has been formed to study it – you…