Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

Congratulations to Center Assistant Director Devin Schrader for having an asteroid named in his honor! Asteroid (117581) Devinschrader was discovered in 2005 by Mount Lemmon Survey at Mount Lemmon, Arizona.   From the June, 2017 Minor Planet Circular: Devin Schrader … is a meteoriticist and cosmochemist, and is Assistant Director of the Center for Meteorite…

Noblesville is an ordinary (H4-6) chondrite that fell in Indiana, the evening of August 1st, 1991. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 72): "The stone passed two witnesses, Brodie Spaulding and Brian Kinzie, who observed it land 3.56 m in front of them on the lawn in front of a house. No light or sound…

Moss is a CO3.6 carbonaceous chondrite that fell the morning of July 14, 2006, in Østfold, Norway. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 91): At about 10:20 am on July 14, 2006, a bright fireball traveling SSE-NNW was witnessed by many people and a loud explosion and a rumbling sound was heard in the air…

Celebrate with a crash course on ASU’s NASA missions, meteorite collection and more Planets get all the attention — just look at the ruckus raised when Pluto was demoted or anytime NASA announces exoplanet discoveries. But on Friday, asteroids take center stage with their very own Asteroid Day, an annual event started in 2015 to…

The Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University invites applications for 2 Postdoctoral Research Associates.  Click here for details!