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
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
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 […]
Behind the Scenes – Hayabusa Mission
Delve into current research at the Center with this periodic news feature, and catch a glimpse of what our students and scientists are working on right now! Good things come to those who wait! Center Assistant Director Devin Schrader recently received very securely packaged samples of near-Earth asteroid Itokawa, on loan from the Japan Aerospace […]
Apt
Apt is an (L6) ordinary chondrite that fell October 8, 1803, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region of southeastern France. A report of the fall was recorded in “Der neueste Meteorstein”, published in the Annalen der Physik in 1804 (16(1), p. 72). According to this report, on a slightly overcast morning, a very loud crash was […]
