Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

Abee is an EH4 (enstatite) chondrite that fell in northern Alberta. According to Griffin et al. (1992), around 11pm on the night of June 9th, 1952, the sky north of Edmonton was lit up by a brilliant fireball. One observer at a local drive-in movie theater even claimed that it was so bright that the…

Center Assistant Research Scientist Dr. Jemma Davidson and Interim Director Dr. Devin Schrader are co-authors of a new paper published in the journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. The paper, "The relationship between CM and CO chondrites: Insights from combined analyses of titanium, chromium, and oxygen isotopes in CM, CO, and ungrouped chondrites" provides new insight…

The Center for Meteorite Studies is saddened by the passing of Charles “Chuck” Lewis, retired ASU Meteorite Curator and researcher. Lewis’ interest in both chemistry and meteorites spanned several decades; as an undergraduate, he participated in a field trip led by H. H. Nininger. On the recommendation of ASU chemist Tom Thompson, who had been…

New Concord is an ordinary (L6) ordinary chondrite that fell in Muskingum County, Ohio. Over thirty individual meteorite fragments, weighing a combined 230 kg (507 lb) fell in a broad swath over eastern central Ohio at approximately 12:45 PM on May 1, 1860. The meteorites are named after the town nearest the largest concentration of…

L'Aigle is an ordinary (L6) chondrite that fell in Orme, France on April 26, 1803. The L'Aigle meteorite fall, which produced a shower of over 3,000 stones, proved to European scientists that rocks fall from the sky. Although people had seen meteorites fall before 1803, their stories had typically been doubted by the scientific community….