The Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University is pleased to announce the application opportunity for the 2018 Nininger Meteorite Award for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing research in meteoritical sciences! The Nininger Meteorite Award recognizes outstanding student achievement in the meteoritical sciences as embodied by an original research paper. Papers must cover […]
2019 Nininger Student Travel Award Application Open
The Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University is pleased to announce the application opportunity for the 2019 Nininger Student Travel Award for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing research in meteoritics and planetary sciences. The Nininger Student Travel Award supports travel to the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) of up to 4 School […]
Dwaleni
Dwaleni is an ordinary (H4-6) chondrite that fell the morning of October 12, 1970, near Nhlangano, Swaziland. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 50): Explosions, variously described as eight distinct explosions, a series of crackling explosions, three explosions and a series of staccato reports, accompanied disintegration of the meteorite over southwest Swaziland. The descent […]
Fairfield
Fairfield is an iron (IAB-MG) meteorite found in Butler County, Ohio, in 1974. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB83): An iron mass of 1600 g was found by Mr. Roy Ballinger among material dredged by the American Materials Company from 120 feet depth in a gravel pit in Pleistocene glacial deposits. Fairfield is […]
What happens to a Martian meteorite left in the Arizona desert?
In 2013, two small fragments of the Tissint Martian meteorite were "planted" in Arizona's Sonoran Desert in order to deliberately expose them to terrestrial desert weathering. The first piece was recovered for analysis after 12 months of exposure, and the remaining fragment in 2016 (read about Tissint's recovery from the Arizona desert here). During their […]
