Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

The Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University is pleased to announce the application opportunity for the 2021-22 Nininger Meteorite Award for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing research in meteoritical sciences. The Nininger Meteorite Award recognizes outstanding student achievement in the meteoritical sciences as embodied by an original research paper.  Papers must cover…

Gao-Guenie is an H5 ordinary chondrite that fell in the province of Sissili, Burkina Faso in 1960. For many years, this stone was the source of some confusion in the meteorite world. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 39, MB 57, MB 83), approximately 16 stones were seen to fall in the village of Gao,…

The Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies and the School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) are pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 Nininger Student Travel Award. The goal of this award is to support attendance of the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) for at least 4 SESE undergraduate and/or graduate students…

Catch up with Center alumni through this periodic feature! Dr. Greg Brennecka graduated with a PhD from ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration in 2011. His dissertation research was focused on using isotopes of the element uranium to better understand the history of the early Solar System and how oxygen levels have changed over…

Landes is an iron (IAB-MG) meteorite found in West Virginia in the early 1930s. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 51): The specimen was plowed up in a hillside cornfield one mile east of the Landes Post Office about 35 to 40 years prior to being called to the attention of Glenn I Huss in…