Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

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…

Congratulations to Center Ph.D. Candidate Daniel Dunlap for receiving the 2017 Wiley Award, given each year for outstanding oral presentations by students at the Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society! Daniel received this honor for his presentation entitled 26Al-26Mg Systematics of the Ungrouped Achondrite Northwest Africa 11119: Timing of Extraterrestrial Silica-Rich Magmatism at the 80th…

While we know that the majority of meteorites recovered on Earth originate in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, determining exactly which asteroids specific meteorites come from is a challenge. Center Assistant Director Devin Schrader and colleague Dr. Jemma Davidson (Carnegie Institution for Science) have published a new paper that constrains the thermal histories…

Ask a Curator Day 2017 is is almost here! For one day only, September 13, curators around the world are standing by to answer your questions! Use the hashtag #AskaCurator on Twitter!  You can direct questions to the Center for Meteorite Studies using @ASUMeteorites or you can ask general questions using #AskaCurator. #Askacurator is open…

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…