Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

Nobleborough is an achondrite (eucrite-pm) meteorite that fell August 7th, 1823, in Maine. It was the first recorded meteorite fall in Maine, and the second ever in the United States. An eye witness mistook the sound of the meteorite's entry into Earth's atmosphere for musket fire, and a nearby flock of sheep was startled by…

Catch up with Center alumni through this periodic feature! Dr. Emilie Dunham received her doctoral degree in 2020, from the ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration. Her research in the Center for Meteorite Studies focused on constraining the astrophysical birth environment of the Solar System, for which she was granted a NASA Earth and…

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…