Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

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…

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…

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…

Djati-Pengilon is an ordinary (H6) chondrite that fell the afternoon of March 19, 1884 in the Ngawi Regency of Indonesia. A single stone weighing over 365 lb (166 kg) was recovered from the Aloesta river following a fireball and detonations. According to the Meteoritical Society, the high-iron (H) chemical group of ordinary chondrites is distinguished…

Hugoton is an ordinary (H5) chondrite found in Stevens County, Kansas, in 1935. It was identified by H. H. Nininger, who had recently given a presentation on meteorites at a local high school. The talk was attended by the son of the finder, who invited Nininger to visit the Lynch family farm and examine the…