Center for Meteorite Studies Research Scientist Amy Jurewicz has established a new meteorite outreach program in collaboration with the Montshire Museum of Science, in Norwich, Vermont. Using touchable meteorites and hands-on activities, school-aged children are taught the physical properties of meteorites, as well as their origins, and importance to science here on Earth. Learn more […]
Kilabo
Kilabo is an ordinary (LL6) chondrite that fell the evening of July 21, 2002 in Nigeria. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 87): Mr. Mallam Yahava Muhammad of Hadejia, Nigeria, observed a brilliant fireball moving south to north. Two loud detonations were heard several minutes later. Mr. Mallam Audu and several neighbours in Kilabo heard […]
Arizona Fireball Update – Meteorite Found by ASU Team!
After 132 hours of searching, ASU team — in partnership with White Mountain Apaches — locates meteorites on tribal land. On June 2, a chunk of rock the size of a Volkswagen Beetle hurtled into the atmosphere over the desert Southwest at 40,000 miles per hour and broke apart over the White Mountains of eastern […]
Greetings from Rome – part 2
Center Director Meenakshi Wadhwa spent part of the summer chairing the 2016 Vatican Observatory Summer School (VOSS) in Astrophysics, on Water in the Solar System and Beyond. This is the second in a series of digital post cards from her travels – stay tuned for future updates! Highlights from the Vatican Meteorite Collection – Orgueil […]
Center Assistant Director at 21st Science in Japan Forum!
This June, Center Assistant Director Devin Schrader attended a meeting to promote US-Japan Collaboration in Space Sciences, hosted by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), in Washington, DC. Schrader presented recent findings from his work in support of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission, during the Pre-Forum Meeting on Future Cosmochemistry, and […]
