Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

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…

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…

We are pleased to announce that Prajkta Mane, a graduate student in the Center for Meteorite Studies at ASU, has successfully defended her Doctoral thesis, entitled "Isotopic Investigations of Meteoritic Materials: From Earliest-Formed Solids to Planetary Bodies". The beginning of our Solar System, including events such as the formation of the first solids as well…

Delve into current research at the Center with this periodic news feature, and catch a glimpse of what our students and scientists are working on right now! Center Post Doctoral Research Associate Alice Stephant has been using ASU's 6f secondary ion mass spectrometer (SIMS) to measure the hydrogen isotope ratio and water content of mineral…

New article helps pinpoint alteration by water or heat on asteroids! Working with colleagues from the Carnegie Institution of Washington and Smithsonian Institution, CMS Assistant Director Dr. Devin Schrader has been analyzing the sulfide (S2- bearing) minerals in a wide range of meteorites to determine what conditions might have been present on each meteorite’s parent…