Vermillion is an ungrouped pallasite that was found by farmers in Marshall County, Kansas, while planting a field. Although the 34.36 kg meteorite was discovered in 1991, it was not recognized as a pallasite until 1995. Vermillion is an unusual pallasite in that it contains 86 volume % FeNi-metal and 14 vol.% silicate minerals, including […]
Russian meteorite pieces land at ASU!
TEMPE, Ariz. – Arizona State University’s Center for Meteorite Studies (CMS) has acquired a significant new sample for its collection: pieces of the meteor that exploded spectacularly over Russia earlier this year. Several small pieces of the meteorite that rocked Chelyabinsk, Russia in February were donated to CMS by Chicago-area meteorite collector and philanthropist Terry […]
Veramin
Veramin is a mesosiderite (B2) that fell in Iran in 1880. The recovered mass of Veramin is 54 kg to date. Determining the exact date of the meteorite’s fall proved challenging, as reported in Meteoritical Bulletin 68: The fall of Veramin was first reported by F. Dietzch, a German mining engineer, who received a piece […]
CMS Paper Listed in Nature Geoscience Top 10!
A CMS paper that redefined the age of the Solar System has made the list of the top ten papers in the 5-year history of the journal Nature Geoscience! "The age of the Solar System redefined by the oldest Pb-Pb age of a meteoritic inclusion" was authored in 2010 by Audrey Bouvier (then CMS Faculty […]
CMS Director on NPR’s Science Friday!
The Origins Project at Arizona State University welcomed NPR's Ira Flatow and the Science Friday team for a live taping of the show Friday, March 29th, with a panel of guests including Richard Dawkins, Ian McEwan, Lawrence Krauss, and CMS Director Meenakshi Wadhwa! You can listen online here! Science Friday is a weekly science talk show, broadcast live […]
