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, […]
Researcher Spotlight: Devin Schrader
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 […]
Claxton
Claxton is an (L6) ordinary chondrite that fell in Evans County, Georgia, the evening of December 10th, 1984. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 63): A grapefruit sized stone, completely covered with thin black fusion crust, fell damaging a metal mail box and making a depression less than 30 cm (12 inches) in diameter in […]
Explore 4.5 billion years of Solar System history
Take a virtual tour of the Center for Meteorite Studies collection, and explore 4.5 billion years of Solar System history! […]
Karoonda
Karoonda is a carbonaceous (CK4) chondrite that fell in Australia the night of November 25, 1930. According to a paper describing the meteorite (Mason and Wiik, 1962): At 10:53 P.M. on November 25, 1930, an extremely brilliant meteor was seen by many observiers in South Australia. A meteorite fell near Karoonda, a small settlement […]
