Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

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.

An international group of researchers has discovered the 5th-largest meteorite ever to be recovered from East Antarctica, a 40 lb ordinary chondrite.  You can read more about the discovery, and see photos of the expedition here! Every year, scientists from around the world flock to Antarctica to collect meteorites.  CMS Director Meenakshi Wadhwa spent this…

Gruneberg is an ordinary (H4) chondrite that fell in Poland the afternoon of March 22, 1841.  At the time of the meteorite’s fall, the town was part of the Prussian region of Silesia.  The Polish name for the meteorite is Wilkanowko. According to an account published in the American Journal of Science and Arts that…

The morning of Friday, February 15, 2013, a large meteorite exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk Russia.  While the meteorite's impact date coincided with the flyby of near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14, the two events are not related. You can read and watch the latest interviews with the Center for Meteorite Studies here and here!  Stay tuned…

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