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 […]
New paper on LL chondrite sulfides
New research authored by Center Interim Director Devin Schrader and University of Arizona Associate Professor Tom Zega uses chemical and petrographic analyses of iron sulfides to determine the metamorphic type of the host LL chondrite and constrain alteration conditions. These findings can be applied to sulfides in samples returned by the Hayabusa mission from asteroid […]
2019 Nininger Meteorite Award application now open
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 […]
New titanium isotope paper
In a new paper published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, PhD Candidate Zack Torrano and co-authors investigate whether the isotope compositions of previously analyzed calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) are representative of CAIs from other chondrites and chondrite groups and, by extension, the broader CAI-forming region in the solar nebula. CAIs are the oldest dated solids formed […]
Congratulations, Dr. Daniel Dunlap
Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Dunlap, who successfully defended his doctoral thesis August 28, 2019! Dr. Dunlap will next undertake a post-doctoral research position at NASA Johnson Space Center. Chronology of Planetesimal Differentiation Based on the Timing of Achondrite Formation in the Early Solar System The early Solar System was a dynamic period of time during […]
