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Meteorite Gallery joins 2024 Blue Star Museums program The ASU Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies is pleased to announce that we will again join museums nationwide in the Blue Star Museums initiative, a program that provides free admission to currently serving U.S. military personnel and their families this summer. “We are grateful to the Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies for participating in…
Samelia Samelia is a IIIAB iron meteorite that fell the evening of May 20, 1921, in India. In a 1924 publication, Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor (then acting director of the Geological Survey of India) described witness accounts of the meteorite’s fall: “The fireball moved from south to north and left a white trail in the sky. …
The Undertones… in Space! ASU jazz a cappella group The Undertones, which includes Center affiliated student Eric Orson, recently performed The Undertones… in Space! live in the School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) Marston Exploration Theater, in conjunction with SESE’s 3D Astronomy Show. The Undertones have performed at ASU’s Change the World, Barrett Talent Showcase, Homecoming Block Party,…
Genesis Solar Wind Sample Analysis and Techniques Virtual Workshop Center Emeritus Assistant Research Professor Amy Jurewicz, former Jet Propulsion Laboratory Project Scientist for NASA’s Genesis mission, has been involved with the planning of the 2024 Genesis Solar Wind Sample Analysis and Techniques Virtual Workshop along with Genesis Primary Investigator Don Burnett, Genesis Curatory Judy Allton and Carla Gonzalez (Jacobs Engineering – Genesis Curation). The…
L’Aigle April’s Meteorite of the Month is L’Aigle, an ordinary (L6) chondrite that fell in Orme, France on April 26, 1803. The L’Aigle meteorite fall, which produced a shower of over 3,000 stones, proved to European scientists that rocks fall from the sky. Although people had seen meteorites fall before 1803, their stories had typically been…
New research in the Center! This month, members of the Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies presented new findings at the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) held in Houston, Texas. The presented research covers a range of topics in meteoritics and cosmochemistry, including presolar grains, lunar meteorites, samples returned from asteroids, carbonaceous chondrites, the solar wind, mineralogy, and isotope…
Thank you Sun Devil Nation! From all of us at the ASU Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies, sincere and heartfelt thanks to everyone who supports our mission – on Sun Devil Giving Day, and every other day. We couldn’t do it without you!