Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

The Center for Meteorite Studies and the School of Earth and Space Exploration are pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 Nininger Student Travel Award.   This year, the Nininger Student Travel Award will support virtual attendance to the 2021 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) of at least 4 School of Earth and Space…

Domanitch is an (L5) ordinary chondrite that fell in Bursa, Turkey, in 1907, and is the first of two meteorites to have fallen in Bursa; the second being Bursa, an (L6) ordinary chondrite that fell 39 years later, in 1946. How do we know that Bursa is a distinct meteorite, and not a piece of…

Center for Meteorite Studies alumn Dr. Zachary Torrano, Center Assistant Research Scientist Dr. Jemma Davidson, and former Center Director Prof. Meenakshi Wadhwa are co-authors of a new paper recently published in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science. The article, “A reclassification of Northwest Africa 2900 from CV3 to CK3 chondrite”, re-evaluates the classification of Northwest…

Tishomingo is an ungrouped iron meteorite found in Johnston County, Oklahoma. 14-year-old Glenn Orr literally stumbled over the meteorite in January of 1965, while bird hunting near the town of Tishomingo. Oscar E. Monnig presented the Tishomingo discovery details at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, in 1967: His excavation revealed not one,…

Get to know Center researchers with this periodic feature! Dr. Devin Schrader is the Interim Director of the ASU Center for Meteorite Studies (CMS) and an Associate Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE). His research focuses on the study of primitive meteorites that have remained relatively unaltered since they formed in…