Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

Center Collection Curator Dr. Laurence Garvie and PhD Candidate Soumya Ray are co-authors on a new research paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. The paper, Hypervelocity impact experiments in iron-nickel ingots and iron meteorites: Implications for the NASA Psyche mission, details the results of a series of high-velocity impact experiments performed on…

In a new paper published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Center Assistant Research Scientist Dr. Jemma Davidson and co-authors report on one of the most pristine carbonaceous chondrites found to date. By utilizing the chromium content of iron-rich olivine in two Renazzo-like (CR) chondrites from Antarctica, Davidson and co-authors re-examine the metamorphic trend for the CR chondrite group….

Manitouwabing is an iron (IIIAB) meteorite found south of Manitouwabing Lake, Ontario, Canada, in November of 1962. In his 1964 paper, The Metallography of Manitouwabing, Parry Sound, Ontario: A New Canadian Siderite, R. Knox Jr. describes how the meteorite was identified: About a dozen years ago Philip Johnson, a furniture manufacturer of Parry Sound, Ontario,…

School of Earth and Space Exploration, Center for Meteorite Studies, Arizona State University The School of Earth and Space Exploration (https://sese.asu.edu) invites applications for a full-time, tenured position as Associate or Full Professor and Director of the Center for Meteorite Studies (CMS) with an anticipated start date of August 2020. The CMS mission is to…

Update: The application deadline for the Nininger Meteorite Award has been extended to April 3, 2020.   The Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University is pleased to announce the application opportunity for the 2019 Nininger Meteorite Award for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing research in meteoritical sciences!   The Nininger Meteorite Award recognizes…