Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

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…

In a new paper published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Center Assistant Research Scientist Dr. Jemma Davidson and co-authors use the chromium content of FeO-rich olivine to determine the relative degrees of thermal metamorphism for 5 CO (carbonaceous Ornans-like) chondrites from Antarctica. These include Dominion Range 08006 (DOM 08006), which appears to be a highly…

Hamlet is an ordinary (LL4) chondrite that fell the evening of October 13th, 1959, in Indiana. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 17): The meteorite struck a house, breaking off a piece of the gutter, and was found in the yard about 30 minutes after its fall. The stone has a conical shape; however, a…