Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

The Center for Meteorite Studies congratulates Dr. Emilie Dunham, who successfully defended her doctoral thesis September 13th! To Be or not to B: Meteoritic Implications for the Galactic Environment of Solar System Formation Short-lived radionuclides (SLRs) once present in the solar nebula can be used to probe the Solar System’s galactic formation environment. Isotopic analyses…

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 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…

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…