Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

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, 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 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…

The Center for Meteorite Studies was recently featured in National Geographic Magazine, in an article titled "Our three favorite scientific breathroughs this month". Read the article and see photos, here! Photo: The ASU Center for Meteorite Studies climate-controlled meteorite collection facility. Image credit: ASU/CMS/Garvie.    

Breitscheid is an ordinary (H5) chondrite that fell the afternoon of August 11, 1956, in Hesse, Germany. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 2): The fall of the meteorite was observed as a short, light yellow, somewhat reddish fiery trail. Judging by the broken branches of trees and the aspect of the hole, it may…