Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

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…

This March, several members of the Center for Meteorites Studies presented new findings at the 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), in Houston, Texas. The Center's presentations covered a range of topics in meteoritics and cosmochemistry, including water on Mars, carbonaceous chondrites, meteorite petrology, the solar wind, and processes in the early Solar System….

Center Ph.D. candidate Emilie Dunham is first author on a new paper published in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, examining two basaltic Martian meteorites found in Antarctica. The goals of this study were to determine whether meteorites LAR 12095 and LAR 12240 were part of the same fall, as well as how they formed…