Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

Northwest Africa 7611 (NWA 7611) is a lunar meteorite found near the Algeria-Morocco border in May, 2012. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 102), the stone shows: …no fusion crust, smooth exterior with numerous light- and dark-colored clasts, saw cuts reveal brecciated texture with white feldspar and green-brown pyroxene and olivine grains (up to 3…

Northwest Africa 5000 (NWA 5000) is a lunar (feldspathic breccia) found in southern Morocco in July of 2007. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 93), NWA 5000 is: A single, large cuboidal stone (11.528 kg) with approximate dimensions 27 cm × 24 cm × 20 cm. One side (which appears to have been embedded downward…

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…

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…