See what Center researchers are currently working on in this special behind-the-scenes feature! Center affiliated Barrett Honors College undergraduate student Eric Orson prepares a grain of the Tarda meteorite for analysis via Secondary Emission Microscopy in the ASU Meteorite Laboratory as part of his honor’s thesis project. Photo © ASU/SESE/BCMS. […]
Season’s Greetings
Season’s greetings from the ASU Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies, home of the Carleton B. Moore Meteorite Collection! Photo: Erg Chech 002, an ungrouped achondrite found in 2020 in Algeria’s Erg Chech sand sea. […]
Puente-Ladron
Puente-Ladron is a type L ordinary chondrite found in Socorro County, New Mexico by Harvey H. Nininger. On May 17, 1944, H.H. Nininger stopped for a bit of lunch on a lonely stretch of New Mexico highway and, as was his habit, scanned the area around him for meteorites while eating. “I started on, but […]
BCMS at Homecoming 2023
This year’s ASU Homecoming Block Party celebrations were out of this world with the addition of the Center’s touchable meteorite specimens and student outreach ambassadors, led by NASA Space Grant Intern Sam Campbell. Even Sparky couldn’t resist holding a space rock! Photo © ASU/BCMS/Sam Campbell. […]
New Ti and Cr isotope research on asteroid Ryugu
A large group of international researchers, including former BCMS Director and current SESE Director Meenakshi Wadhwa, SESE Research Scientist Vinai Rai, SESE alumna Nicole Phelan, and BCMS Research Professional Rebekah Hines, recently collaborated on a newly published study of samples of the Ryugu asteroid returned by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Hayabusa2 mission. The paper, […]
