The Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University is pleased to announce the application opportunity for the 2016 Nininger Meteorite Award for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing research in meteoritical sciences! The Nininger Meteorite Award recognizes outstanding student achievement in the meteoritical sciences as embodied by an original research paper. Papers must cover […]
Ask a Curator Day 2016
Ask a Curator Day was September 14th, but you may email (meteorites@asu.edu) or tweet (@ASUMeteorites) the Center with your questions anytime! Ask a Curator Day 2016 is here! For one day only, September 14, curators around the world are standing by to answer your questions! Use the hashtag #AskaCurator on Twitter! You can direct questions […]
Win a tour of the ASU meteorite collection with Sun Devil Rewards!
Sun Devil Rewards is ASU’s gift to alumni, fans, students — the entire Sun Devil community. It’s a program that rewards you for your loyalty, enthusiam and Maroon and Gold attitude, and for staying connected. By doing your Sun Devil thing — sharing ASU news; checking in to ASU events; playing trivia games, completing surveys, participating […]
Carancas
Carancas is an ordinary (H4-5) chondrite that fell in Peru, the afternoon of September 15, 2007. To date, over 340g of material have been recovered. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 93): A large fireball was witnessed to impact near the community of Carancas, in the province of Chucuito, region of Puno in the country […]
CMS at Meteoritical Society Meeting!
This August, members of the Center for Meteorite Studies presented new findings at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society held in Berlin, Germany, with over 500 attendants from 35 countries. The Center's presentations covered a broad range of topics in meteoritics and cosmochemistry, including meteorites from Mars, carbonaceous chondrites, meteorite petrology, and processes […]
