Center Welcomes Gabriel de Souza Franco!We are pleased to welcome Gabriel de Souza Franco, a new Ph.D. student in the Center for Meteorite Studies! Gabriel received his M.Sc. in 2017, from the University of Brasilia, where he studied the mineral chemistry, geochemistry, and strontium isotope composition of plagioclase and clinopyroxene crystals from the La Hoyada Volcanic Complex, under the advisement… |
Center Members Present Research at MetSoc!This July, members of the Center for Meteorite Studies joined colleauges from around the world to present new findings at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (MetSoc) held in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Center's presentations covered a broad range of topics in meteoritics and cosmochemistry, including carbonaceous chondrites, the solar wind, meteorite… |
Asteroid Named for Center Assistant Director!Congratulations to Center Assistant Director Devin Schrader for having an asteroid named in his honor! Asteroid (117581) Devinschrader was discovered in 2005 by Mount Lemmon Survey at Mount Lemmon, Arizona. From the June, 2017 Minor Planet Circular: Devin Schrader … is a meteoriticist and cosmochemist, and is Assistant Director of the Center for Meteorite… |
Asteroid Day: Rock on with your space self!Celebrate with a crash course on ASU’s NASA missions, meteorite collection and more Planets get all the attention — just look at the ruckus raised when Pluto was demoted or anytime NASA announces exoplanet discoveries. But on Friday, asteroids take center stage with their very own Asteroid Day, an annual event started in 2015 to… |
