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Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

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 […]

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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 […]

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