A new study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters has shown that infrasound waves generated by the dramatic entrance into Earth's atmosphere by the Chelyabinsk meteorite circled the planet twice, and persisted for almost three days. The study also gives a preliminary estimate of the energy released by the meteorite's desintegration, equivalent to 460 kilotons […]
Athens
Athens is an ordinary (LL6) chondrite that fell the morning of July 11, 1933, in Limestone County, Alabama. Only one stone, weighing approximately 265 g., was recovered. According to C.C. Wylie and Stuart H. Perry, who described the Athens fall in great detail in volume 41 of Popular Astronomy (1933), a farmer and his son […]
CMS Welcomes NASA Graduate Fellow!
We are pleased to announce that Teresa Ashcraft has joined the Center for Meteorite Studies as a NASA Graduate Fellow! Teresa will be working on CMS Education and Public Outreach efforts, and is currently a Ph. D. Candidate in the School of Earth and Space Exploration. […]
CMS at Phoenix Comicon!
CMS Ph.D. Candidate Curtis Williams and Ph.D. Student Prajkta Mane represented the Center for Meteorite Studies at Phoenix Comicon this May, hosting a panel on meteorites with School of Earth & Space Exploration Associate Professor Steve Desch. Williams and Mane displayed touchable meteorites from the Center's Carleton B. Moore Meteorite Collection, answered questions, and discussed […]
Château-Renard
Château-Renard is an ordinary (L6) chondrite that fell near Montargis, in Loiret, France June 12, 1841. The meteorite’s fall was published in the American Journal of Science and Arts, Volume 42, as reported in the New York Observer on August 14, 1841: Meteorite in France. – Galignani’s Messenger mentions that at a late session of […]
