Note: While we usually feature a meteorite that's fallen in the current month, our Curator, Dr. Laurence Garvie, liked this photo so much that we decided to share it now, rather than waiting. Lissa is an ordinary (L6) chondrite that fell at 3:30PM on September 3, 1808, in what is now the Czech Republic, near […]
Tagish Lake
Tagish Lake is a C2-ungrouped carbonaceous chondrite that fell in Canada in 2000. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 84), the Tagish Lake fall was preceded by a bright fireball visible in northern British Columbia and the southern Yukon, and loud explosions the morning of January 18th, 2000. The meteoroid detonated at an altitude of […]
Call for abstracts – BCMS Symposium on Solar System Exploration by Spacecraft and Microscope
We are pleased to announce the call for abstracts for the Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies Symposium on Solar System Exploration by Spacecraft and Microscope. BCMS will host a one-day symposium on March 9, 2023 to celebrate the renaming of the Center for Meteorite Studies in honor of Regents Professor Peter R. Buseck, and […]
ASU, NASA project zooms in on the structure of meteorites
Researchers in ASU's Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, School of Earth and Space Exploration seek to understand macroscopic characteristics of space rocks that fall to Earth This story was written by Monica Williams, and originally published by ASU News January 17, 2023. They can often be seen in the night sky as quick streaks […]
Dhajala
Dhajala is an ordinary chondrite (H3.8) that fell in Sayla Taluka, India. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB55), at roughly 8:40pm on January 28, 1976, a very bright fireball was observed near Dhajala. The fireball was significantly brighter than the full moon that night, and made a hissing sound. Detonations were also heard, and the […]
