Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

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 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…