Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

Murray is a carbonaceous (CM2) chondrite that fell September 20, 1950 in Kentucky. Photo copyright ASU/CMS/D. Schrader.

Drum Mountains is an iron (IIIAB) meteorite found in Utah, in 1944. Image copyright ASU/CMS/D. Schrader.

Baldwyn is an ordinary (L6) chondrite that fell the day of February 2nd, 1922, in Mississippi. Image copyright ASU/CMS/D. Schrader.

The ASU Center for Meteorite Studies is pleased to announce that Clara Maurel, a Ph.D. Candidate in the MIT School of Science is the recipient of the 2020 Nininger Meteorite Award, and Soumya Ray, a Ph.D. Candidate in the ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration received an Honorable Mention for the award. The Nininger…

Sioux County is an achondrite (eucrite-mmict) that fell in Nebraska August 8th, 1933.  The meteorite’s fall to Earth was well-recorded as it was mistaken for an earthquake by some, and written up in local newspapers.  This article first appeared on page 5 of the Lincoln Star (Lincoln, Nebraska), Thursday, August 10, 1933: Report Meteor Buried…