Meteorites at ASU Homecoming!Thanks very much to everyone who stopped by the Center's booth at the ASU Homecoming Block Party this year! Our researchers and students had a fantastic time, and are already looking forward to next year! In the meantime, visit us this Saturday, Nov 5, at Earth & Space Exploration Day! Photos ⓒ CMS/ASU. |
October’s Orionid Meteor ShowerThe annual Orionid meteor shower is this month! While the meteor shower is active October 2 to November 7, this year's peak will be October 21. At its height, you may expect to see up to 20 meteors per hour, some very bright and fast – according to NASA, these meteors are travelling at a… |
Digital Postcard: To Bennu and Back!Center for Meteorite Studies Assistant Director Devin Schrader is a sample scientist collaborator on NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer). He attended the mission launch at Kennedy Space Center last month, and brings us the latest in our series of digital postcards! OSIRIS-REx will arrive at asteroid Bennu in 2018, and… |
Did early impacts affect Earth?A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences takes a critical look at the Late Heavy Bombardment hypothesis, a theory resulting from study of lunar samples returned by the Apollo missions. You can read more about the study in New Scientist here, and The Atlantic here, including comments from Center… |
