To welcome this year’s incoming ASU freshmen, the Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies (BCMS) has partnered with the School of Earth and Space Exploration to dedicate a meteorite to the Class of 2027. The Class of 2027's meteorite is actually a graphite nodule from the Canyon Diablo iron (IAB-MG) meteorite. Canyon Diablo is unusual in […]
Center researchers at ExMag 2023
Meteorite Studies (BCMS) personnel recently participated in the annual meeting of the NASA-chartered Extraterrestrial Materials Analysis Group (ExMAG). ExMAG is a community-based, interdisciplinary group that provides a forum for discussion and analysis of matters concerning the collection, curation, and analysis of extraterrestrial samples, including planning future sample return missions. Center Research Scientist Dr. Jemma Davidson […]
Dashoguz
September’s Meteorite of the Month is Dashoguz, an ordinary (H5) chondrite that fell September 5, 1998. The meteorite’s fall was witnessed near the city of Daşoguz, in northern Turkmenistan, but it took several weeks of searching to find a very small crater containing just over 15 lb (7 kg) of the meteorite – all that […]
Center scientists present new research at MetSoc 2023
This August, Center scientists presented new findings at the annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society in Los Angeles, on the University of California, Los Angeles campus. Established in 1933, The Meteoritical Society is an international organization dedicated to the promotion of research and education in planetary science with emphasis on the studies of meteorites and […]
Announcing the 2021-22 Nininger Meteorite Awardees
The ASU Center for Meteorite Studies is pleased to announce that Zoë Wilbur, a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Arizona is the recipient of the 2021-22 Nininger Meteorite Award, and Cauê Borlina, a Blaustein Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University received an Honorable Mention for the award. The Nininger Meteorite Award recognizes outstanding student […]
