Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

The ASU Center for Meteorite Studies Gallery recently received the distinction of Best Place to See Meteorites, bestowed by the Phoenix New Times, and featured in their Best of Phoenix 2020 publication.   We can't help but agree. Read the Phoenix New Times Best of 2020 entry, here. Learn more about the Meteorite Gallery, here….

The Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University is pleased to announce the application opportunity for the 2019-2020 Nininger Meteorite Award for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing research in meteoritical sciences! The Nininger Meteorite Award recognizes outstanding student achievement in the meteoritical sciences as embodied by an original research paper; the recipient receives $2,000…

Chitado is an ordinary (L6) chondrite that fell in the province of Cunene, southwest Angola. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 53): On October 20, 1966, a shower of meteorites fell near Chitado, within an area of approximately 6 km2. Several stones weighing several hundred grams each and a few of some kilograms were collected…

Center for Meteorite Studies Meteorite Curator Laurence Garvie is featured in a new article published in the journal Science on the meteorite Aguas Zarcas. Aguas Zarcas is a carbonaceous (CM2) meteorite that fell in Costa Rica April 23, 2019. One 280 g (approx 10 oz) piece struck a dog house, and another 1152 g (approx…

Plantersville is an ordinary (H6) chondrite that fell in Texas the afternoon of September 4, 1930. In his 1937 American Mineralogist research article, Professor John Lonsdale described the circumstances of the meteorite fall, as recounted to him by witnesses: This locality is forested and only the fact that six men … were cutting timber within…