Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

The annual Orionid meteor shower is this month!  While the meteor shower is active October 2 to November 7, this year's peak will be October 21.  At its height, you may expect to see up to 20 meteors per hour, some very bright and fast – according to NASA, these meteors are travelling at a…

Center for Meteorite Studies Assistant Director Devin Schrader is a sample scientist collaborator on NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer).  He attended the mission launch at Kennedy Space Center last month, and brings us the latest in our series of digital postcards! OSIRIS-REx will arrive at asteroid Bennu in 2018, and…

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences takes a critical look at the Late Heavy Bombardment hypothesis, a theory resulting from study of lunar samples returned by the Apollo missions. You can read more about the study in New Scientist here, and The Atlantic here, including comments from Center…

Celebrate World Space Week Oct 4-10 with the ASU Center for Meteorite Studies! Follow the Center on Facebook and Twitter for updates during World Space Week! Fun facts, meteorite photos, and more! Visit the ASU Meteorite Gallery! Find out where meteorites come from and how planets form! Discover what scientists are learning from meteorites –…

Manych is an ordinary (LL3.4) chondrite that fell in the Stavropol region of Russia. While the first 1.86 kg stone was found shortly after it fell in the village of Manych, October 21, 1951, it wasn’t until years later that a second piece of the Manych meteorite was identified.  The second stone weighed 1.7 kg,…