This March, several members of the Center for Meteorites Studies presented new findings at the 49th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), in Houston, Texas. The Center's presentations covered a range of topics in meteoritics and cosmochemistry, including meteorites from asteroid Vesta, carbonaceous chondrites, meteorite petrology, the solar wind, and processes in the early Solar […]
Bovedy
Bovedy is an (L3) ordinary chondrite that fell in Northern Ireland the night of April 25, 1969, near Belfast. The Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 46) describes the fall: "The fireball was seen all the way from Sussex through London, Doncaster and Yorkshire to Northern Ireland toward Belfast. It was moving from ESE to W NW very […]
Meteorite curling with Team Isotopes
The clean lab curlers of Team Isotopes were in Las Vegas this weekend, for the World Men's Curling Championship! Thanks to Curling Las Vegas, Team Isotopes got to meet men's Olympic curling gold medalists John Shuster, Matt Hamilton, and Joe Polo, who took on the budding sport of meteorite curling – video below! The Center […]
Center student wins Summer Exploration Graduate Fellowship
Congratulations to Center for Meteorite Studies Ph. D. student Soumya Ray, who has been awarded a Summer Exploration Graduate (SEG) Fellowship! The SEG Fellowship Program encourages and supports summer exploration activities by graduate students in all of the research areas within the School of Earth and Space Exploration. The SEG Fellowship Program seeks creative and […]
Welcome, Dr. Jemma Davidson!
The Center for Meteorite Studies is pleased to welcome Dr. Jemma Davidson! Dr. Davidson received her M. Sc. in Geochemistry from Durham University in 2006, followed by a Ph. D. in Cosmochemistry and Planetary Science from the Open University in 2009. She brings considerable expertise in Isotope Cosmochemistry and in a variety of analytical […]
