Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

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…

This July, several members, alumni, and affiliates of the Center for Meteorite Studies presented new findings at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society in Sapporo, Japan. The Center's presentations covered a broad range of topics in meteoritics and cosmochemistry, including water on Mars, aubrites, ureilites, meteorites from the moon, carbonaceous chondrites, and processes…

A new ASU Now article documents how the Apollo 11 lunar landing continues to inspire scientists at ASU, as well as the role of Center Founding Director Carleton Moore in the analyses of the lunar samples returned to Earth by the Apollo missions. While the first samples returned by the Apollo 11 mission were almost…