Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

We are pleased to welcome Gabriel de Souza Franco, a new Ph.D. student in the Center for Meteorite Studies!  Gabriel received his M.Sc. in 2017, from the University of Brasilia, where he studied the mineral chemistry, geochemistry, and strontium isotope composition of plagioclase and clinopyroxene crystals from the La Hoyada Volcanic Complex, under the advisement…

This July, members of the Center for Meteorite Studies joined colleauges from around the world to present new findings at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (MetSoc) held in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Center's presentations covered a broad range of topics in meteoritics and cosmochemistry, including carbonaceous chondrites, the solar wind, meteorite…

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…