Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

Friends and colleagues of the late Center Founding Director and ASU Regents’ Professor Carleton B. Moore gathered recently in the School of Earth and Space Exploration to pay tribute to his storied career and share memories. Speakers included BCMS Director Rhonda Stroud, School of Earth and Space Exploration Director (and former Director of the Center…

Watch BCMS and Barrett Honor College graduate Xeynab Mouti describe the meteorite dedicated to this year’s graduating class, in the video below. Xeynab’s research in the Center focussed on investigating fine-grained chondrule rims in the Mighei-like carbonaceous (CM) chondrites in order to further elucidate their formational history, with the goal of determining whether such rims…

Stannern is an achondrite belonging to the Howardite-Eucrite-Diogenite (HED) group of meteorites, believed to have formed on the surface of asteroid 4-Vesta. Eucrites are the most common type of achondrite meteorite falls (vs. finds) and are believed to have formed from the cooling of magma on the surface of the Asteroid 4-Vesta; the number 4…

Arizona State University Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies researcher, Dr. Jemma Davidson, selected to join the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) Participating Scientist Program (PSP). NASA has announced the selection of US participating scientists in the JAXA-led Martian Moons eXploration (MMX )Mission to return samples from the Martian moon Phobos. Arizona State University researcher Jemma Davidson…

See what Center researchers are currently working on in this special behind-the-scenes feature! Center Curator Laurence Garvie is preparing to chemically extract “diamonds” from the Canyon Diablo iron (IAB-MG) meteorite. This work requires harsh chemicals, and is only performed by experienced researchers inside a fume hood, with full personal protective equipment. Read more about Dr….