Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

Sericho is a pallasite found in Kenya in 2016. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 106): In 2016, two brothers were searching for their camels and came across several large, dense stones west of the village of Habaswein and south of Sericho, Kenya. There are no rocks in this area, so they decided they were…

The Perseid meteor shower is at its peak August 11 to 13, so make sure to take in the show!  The yearly Perseid meteor shower is the result of Earth's orbit intersecting the debris tail of Comet Swift-Tuttle.  The meteors are the result of small debris particles burning up as they enter Earth's atmosphere, and…

Look no further astronomy lovers, the School of Earth and Space Exploration at ASU is hosting a Solar Eclipse 2017 viewing experience on Monday, Aug. 21 from 9 a.m. to noon. Join us on Hayden Lawn or in Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building IV on the Tempe campus for this rare, celestial event as we peer through solar telescopes and sport brand-new,…

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…

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…