The Center's Meteorite Gallery is one of more than 2,000 museums across America to offer free admission to military personnel and their families this summer in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, and the Department of Defense Blue Star Museums is a collaboration among the National Endowment for the […]
2016 Nininger Meteorite Award Recipient Announced!
The ASU Center for Meteorite Studies is pleased to announce that Emily Worsham, a graduate student at the University of Maryland, is the recipient of the 2016 Nininger Meteorite Award. Emily's paper “Siderophile element systematics of IAB complex iron meteorites: New insights into the formation of an enigmatic group” (coauthored by Katherine Bermingham, and Richard […]
The Arizona Fireball Has a Name!
Far out in the asteroid belt, more than 200 million miles from Earth, an asteroid the size of a Volkswagen Beetle lazily orbited the sun. Then something — we’ll never know what — disturbed it. It was knocked out of its orbit into an elliptical orbit. It swung closer and closer to the sun. Then, […]
Dishchii’bikoh
Dishchii’bikoh is an (LL7) ordinary chondrite that fell the morning of June 2, 2016, near the eastern Arizona community of Cibecue. Photo: ASU/CMS. From the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 106): History: (D. Dunlap, M. Fries, R. Garcia, L. Garvie, M. Hankey, R. Matson, P. Mane, M. Miller, R. Ward) […]
ASU’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera Hit by Meteoroid!
On October 13, 2014, something very strange happened to the camera aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), which normally produces beautifully clear images of the lunar surface, produced an image that was wild and jittery. From the sudden and jagged pattern apparent in the image, the LROC team determined […]
