Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

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 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…

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…

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…

The Center for Meteorite Studies was featured in an episode of the Science Channel program Alien Encounters!  The episode first aired Tuesday, March 12th, but you can watch the video here and learn more about the Science Channel's "Are We Alone?" month here.