Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

Center Ph.D. candidate Emilie Dunham recently wrote an article for Meteorite Times Magazine.  The piece, Understanding Solar System History: CAIs in Meteorites, details Dunham's research in the Center as well as findings she presented at the annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society last year. A recipient of the prestigious NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship…

Albareto is an ordinary (L/LL4) chondrite that fell in northern Italy in July of 1766. The meteorite's fall was widely witnessed, as it occurred in the middle of the day, and accounts describe the stone impacting with such force that the ground shook and a cow was knocked off its feet. The 2 kg stone…

Center Director Meenakshi Wadhwa was recently featured on NPR's Science Friday, discussing the 2003 fall of the Park Forest meteorite. Listen to the interview here!

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 Star Museums is a collaboration among the National…

We are pleased to announce that Center Ph.D. Candidate Daniel Dunlap has been awarded the Dwornik Award! The award was endowed in 1991 by Dr. Stephen E. Dwornik, who wished to encourage U.S. students to become involved with NASA and planetary science. The Dwornik Award recognizes outstanding student presentations (in both oral and poster categories)…