The Arizona Fireball Has a Name!Far out in the asteroid belt, more than 200 million miles from Earth, an asteroid the size of a Volkswagen Beetle lazily orbited the sun. Then something — we’ll never know what — disturbed it. It was knocked out of its orbit into an elliptical orbit. It swung closer and closer to the sun. Then,… |
ASU’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera Hit by Meteoroid!On October 13, 2014, something very strange happened to the camera aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), which normally produces beautifully clear images of the lunar surface, produced an image that was wild and jittery. From the sudden and jagged pattern apparent in the image, the LROC team determined… |
Messengers from Faraway Worlds!Center Director Meenakshi Wadhwa recently spoke at the annual TEDxASU event, focusing on Innovation: The act of taking a new outlook on an old problem. The event featured innovators focused on changing the way that the world looks at education, research, and entrepreneurship, and meaningfully impacting the ASU community as well as the world in… |
Center Student Awarded NASA Fellowship!The recipients of the prestigious 2017 NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) have been announced, and include the Center's own Daniel Dunlap! Daniel's research involves the use of high-resolution chronometers based on short-lived radionuclides (Specifically, 26Al-26Mg and 53Mn-53Cr) to investigate the timing of melting and differentiation of planetesimals in the early Solar System. These… |
