Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

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…

2021 has been a busy year at the Center for Meteorite Studies, and we're excited to share our new research publications with you – we're working on everything from carbonaceous chondrites, to the Solar Wind, to samples returned from asteroid missions! Read on for a selection of new papers published by our researchers, and find…

Get to know Center researchers with this periodic feature! Xeynab Mouti is an undergraduate student at ASU doing research in the Center for Meteorite Studies (CMS) and a 2020/2021 NASA Space Grant Intern alumni. Mouti is studying for a major in microbiology and minors in geological sciences, Arabic studies, and Italian. Her research in CMS…

To celebrate of 60 years of the Center for Meteorite Studies, we’re posting stories of historical Center events, new research initiatives, exciting outreach programs, conservation and growth of the Center’s invaluable meteorite collection. We invite you to follow us on social media, and share your memories and photos of the Center for Meteorite Studies using…