Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

The Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University is pleased to announce the application opportunity for the 2017 Nininger Meteorite Award for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing research in meteoritical sciences!   The Nininger Meteorite Award recognizes outstanding student achievement in the meteoritical sciences as embodied by an original research paper.  Papers must cover…

This fall, five students in the ASU School or Earth and Space Exploration were nominated by the school as College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) Student Leaders – including Center Ph.D. Candidate Emilie Dunham! Since 1997, CLAS has recognized close to 22,000 distinguished alumni and students throughout the college, including 190 CLAS student leaders. …

Center Director Meenakshi Wadhwa was recently featured on NPR's Science Friday, discussing the discovery of an interstellar object in our Solar System! Listen to the interview here! Click on the image below for animation! This animation shows the path of A/2017 U1, which is an asteroid — or perhaps a comet — as it passed…

Benguerir is an (LL6) ordinary chondrite that fell in Morocco in 2004. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 89): A meteorite shower was witnessed to fall near Benguerir (~50 km due north of Marrakesh, Morocco) by local people on 2004 November 22nd at ~11:45 GMT. The fall had an east-to-west trajectory. The estimated total recovered…

Celebrate World Space Week 2017 with the ASU Center for Meteorite Studies! Follow the Center on Facebook and Twitter for updates during World Space Week! Fun facts, meteorite photos, and more! Visit the ASU Meteorite Gallery! Find out where meteorites come from and how planets form! Discover what scientists are learning from meteorites – right…