Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

Center affiliated PhD candidates Soumya Ray and Zack Torrano recently produced a new segment for ASU's Ask an Earth and Space Scientist website! Their piece, Meteorites: Space Rocks, covers meteorite origins, types, identification, and much more – all tailored for at-home learning. Ask an Earth and Space Scientist is an educational portal for students, teachers,…

The Center for Meteorite Studies and the School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) are pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Nininger Student Travel Award. The goal of this award is to support travel to the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) of up to 4 SESE undergraduate and/or graduate students to…

At home with the kids? Check out our online resources for K-12 at-home learning, and find out why space rocks! Click on the links for more info: Hands-on activities Educator guides Videos and presentations

The Center for Meteorite Studies is pleased to offer 4 new free meteorite-themed virtual backgrounds for all your online meetings – because space rocks! Click the on photos or descriptions to be taken to the download page. Seymchan Pallasites such as Seymchan are believed to form between the silicate mantle, or outer shell, and molten…

Kayakent is an iron (IIIAB) meteorite that fell in April of 1961, near the village of Kayakent, Turkey. Photo © ASU/CMS: The cross-hatched structure in the metal (called Widmanstätten pattern) in this sample indicates extremely slow cooling, on the order of 10o Celsius per million years. The meteorite was brought to the Department of Astronomy…