September’s Meteorite of the Month is Dashoguz, an ordinary (H5) chondrite that fell September 5, 1998. The meteorite’s fall was witnessed near the city of Daşoguz, in northern Turkmenistan, but it took several weeks of searching to find a very small crater containing just over 15 lb (7 kg) of the meteorite – all that […]
Center scientists present new research at MetSoc 2023
This August, Center scientists presented new findings at the annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society in Los Angeles, on the University of California, Los Angeles campus. Established in 1933, The Meteoritical Society is an international organization dedicated to the promotion of research and education in planetary science with emphasis on the studies of meteorites and […]
Announcing the 2021-22 Nininger Meteorite Awardees
The ASU Center for Meteorite Studies is pleased to announce that Zoë Wilbur, a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Arizona is the recipient of the 2021-22 Nininger Meteorite Award, and Cauê Borlina, a Blaustein Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University received an Honorable Mention for the award. The Nininger Meteorite Award recognizes outstanding student […]
Welcome, Imène Kerraouch
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Imène Kerraouch, who joins the Center as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar working under Center Director Prof. Rhonda Stroud. Imène received her Ph.D. from Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster in 2022, and studies formational processes in primitive chondrites and the early Solar System. She is currently examining samples returned by JAXA‘s Hayabusa2 […]
Tarda
August's Meteorite of the Month is Tarda, a carbonaceous (C2-ung) chondrite that fell in Morocco on August 25, 2020. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 109): "On Tuesday, 25 August 2020, around 2:30 pm Moroccan time (GMT+1) a fireball was widely witnessed by people in southern Morocco from Alnif, Zagora, Tazarine, and Rich. The fireball […]
