Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

From all of us at the ASU Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies, sincere and heartfelt thanks to everyone who supports our mission – on Sun Devil Giving Day, and every other day. We couldn’t do it without you! Photos: Top, attendees of the recent Buseck Symposium tour the vault with Curator Laurence Garvie. Left, BCMS…

Click on the links below to learn about new and current research in the Center! A. Lázár, Zsombor Molnár, Attila Demény, László Kótai, László Trif, Kende Attila Béres, Eszter Bódis, Gábor Bortel, László Előd Aradi, Máté Karlik, Máté Zoltán Szabó, Áron Pekker, Gergely Németh, Katalin Kamarás, Laurence A. J. Garvie and  Péter Németh (2023) Insights into the amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC) → ikaite → calcite…

March 16 is Sun Devil Giving Day – 24 hours to show the world what you can accomplish when you join forces to support Arizona State University and the Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies (BCMS)! Every dollar counts, and your gift helps support our pursuit of new knowledge about the origin of our Solar System…

See what Center researchers are currently working on in this special behind-the-scenes feature! Center Deputy Director Dr. Devin Schrader uses electron microprobe analysis (EPMA) to characterize primitive early Solar System material, determine its variability between meteorite groups, and understand its evolution. Read his most recent paper, here! EPMA is the quantitative detection of the electron-bombardment-induced…

Parnallee is an ordinary (LL3.6) chondrite that fell February 28th, 1857, in Tamil Nadu, India. Parnallee is a low-iron, low metal (LL) chondrite exhibiting abundant chondrules, un-equilibrated mineral assemblages, and a low degree of aqueous alteration. Over 77 kilograms of the Parnallee meteorite have been recovered to date.  The overwhelming majority of meteorites recovered in…