Applications for the 2018 Nininger Meteorite Award, for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing research in meteoritical sciences, are now being accepted! The Nininger Meteorite Award recognizes outstanding student achievement in the meteoritical sciences as embodied by an original research paper. Papers must cover original research conducted by the student and must have been written, […]
2019 Nininger Student Travel Award
The application process for the 2019 Nininger Student Travel Award for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing research in meteoritics and planetary sciences, is now open! The Nininger Student Travel Award supports travel to the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) of up to 4 School of Earth & Space Exploration undergraduate and graduate students to […]
Student group classifies new meteorite
Through ASU's Sundial Project, a group of undergraduate students had the opportunity to work with Center Ph.D. Candidate Emilie Dunham and Collection Curator Dr. Laurence Garvie to classify a brand new achondrite meteorite. The students used ASU's electron microprobe to analyze the meteorite's elemental composition, as well as to image the meteorite, and learned how […]
St. Louis
St. Louis is an ordinary (H4) chondrite that fell in St. Louis County, Missouri, on December 10th, 1950. This spectacular meteorite fall coincided with the yearly Geminid meteor shower, a separate astronomical event. The fireball lit up the night sky with a bright green-blue glow for several seconds, and loud rumbling, compared by some […]
Korra Korrabes
November’s Meteorite of the Month is Korra Korrabes, an ordinary (H3) chondrite found in 1996, in Namaland, Namibia. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 85): A 22 kg stone plus 11 smaller pieces totaling ~18 kg were found in 1996 November in a dry river bed by a farmer who was searching for Gibeon […]
