Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

Chela is an ordinary chondrite (H4) that fell in the Kahama district of Tanzania around noon on July 12th, 1988. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 68), locals were alerted to the fall by a loud noise and detonations. They collected several of the fallen stones, and some were sent to the police and to…

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and U.S. Senator Mark Kelly recently visited the School of Earth and Space Exploration and toured the Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies collection vault with Curator Dr. Laurence Garvie and Interim Director Dr. Devin Schrader. Read about their visit and vault tour, and see more photos, here!    

Catch up with Center alumni through this periodic feature! Dr. Audrey Bouvier was a postdoctoral scholar and faculty research associate in the Center for Meteorites Studies from 2007 to 2011. While at ASU, her research focused on unraveling the chronology of planetary processes that took place during the first few million years of Solar System…

Richmond is an ordinary (LL5) chondrite that fell June 4th, 1828 in Virginia. After an explosion mistaken for a cannon boom, a rolling rumble was then followed by the fall of a small stone and the creation of ~30 cm deep crater ~200 m away from some workers in a field. Dietrich, R. V. (1990)…

The Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies is pleased to announce that we have once again joined museums nationwide in the Blue Star Museums initiative, a program that provides free admission to currently-serving U.S. military personnel and their families throung Monday, September 5, 2022. Find the list of participating museums at arts.gov/bluestarmuseums. Blue Star Museums is…