Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

The Center's Meteorite Gallery joins more than 2,000 museums across America to offer free admission to military personnel and their families this summer, in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, and the Department of Defense.                             Blue…

Cumberland Falls is an achondrite (aubrite) meteorite that fell in Kentucky, April 9 of 1919. There were many witnesses to this daytime meteorite fall, given the brilliant fireball and sonic booms.  According to Miller (1919): "The concussions produced by the bolide were terrific, causing buildings to rock, and  producting (SIC) the impression on some that…

In a new article for the ASU Interplanetary Initiative Community in a Box Project, Center Ph.D. Candidate Soumya Ray writes that, "in building off-world communities, diversity and inclusiveness are not optional". "In writing this article, I was inspired by the question “what would you put in a ‘community-in-a-box’ to kick-start a vibrant, sustainable community in space?”…

Center for Meteorite Studies Assistant Director Dr. Devin Schrader is a co-author on a new paper titled "Evidence for widespread hydrated minerals on asteroid (101955) Bennu", recently released in the journal Nature Astronomy as part of a special collection of OSIRIS-REx publications. Dr. Schrader provides sample science support for the asteroid sample return mission; read…

Congratulations to Center Ph.D. Candidate Daniel Dunlap, who was awarded the Dwornik Award at this year's Lunar and Planetary Science Conference! The Dwornik Award recognizes outstanding student presentations (in both oral and poster categories) at the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC). The award was endowed in 1991 by Dr. Stephen E. Dwornik, who…