Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

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…

Take a virtual tour of the Center for Meteorite Studies collection, and explore 4.5 billion years of Solar System history!  

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…

Center Assistant Research Scientist Dr. Jemma Davidson is lead author of a new paper on Mars' water, published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Davidson’s recent work involves tracing magmatic volatiles, specifically hydrogen, in minerals in meteorites and terrestrial analogues to learn about how the terrestrial planets gained their water.  In this new…

Center Interim Director Dr. Devin Schrader is featured in an ASU Now story recently published by Knowledge Enterprise writer Mikala Kass. The story was published in celebration of Fossil Day and includes a great feature on the Center for Meteorite Studies and an explanation of fossil meteorites. “[They give] a history of what’s been hitting the…