Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

Center students and personnel took the meteorites on the road in June, to Phoenix Comicon! Ph.D. candidate Emilie Dunham demonstrates the Center's loanable classroom modules at Phoenix Comicon's Edu Tech event. Photo ASU/CMS. Droids, timelords, and aliens all enjoyed posing with the Center's meteorites! Photo ASU/CMS. Thanks to all who braved the heat to visit…

Congratulations to Center Ph.D. candidate Cameron Mercer, recipient of the prestigious 2016 Stephen E. Dwornik Award! The award was endowed in 1991 by Dr. Stephen E. Dwornik, who wished to encourage U.S. students to become involved with NASA and planetary science. The Dwornik Award recognizes outstanding student presentations at the annual Lunar and Planetary Science…

A bright fireball was witnessed by several Valley of the Sun residents in the early morning hours of June 2nd, 2016.  Reports describe a bright flash of light around 4 AM, and some were awakened by a loud bang. According to Center Meteorite Curator Laurence Garvie, this could be a single meteor burning up as…

Portales Valley, an ordinary (H6) chondrite that fell the morning of June 13, 1998, in New Mexico. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 83): "After detonations were heard and smoky trails seen in the sky, a shower of meteorites landed near Portales, New Mexico. 53 objects have been recovered, with a total mass of 71.4…

This April, Center post-doctoral scholar Julia Cartwright traveled to Canberra to analyze an ungrouped achondrite meteorite with Dr. Yuri Amelin, a Senior Fellow at The Australian National University.  Julia in the ANU clean lab with chemistry in the background, including columns set up in the laminar flow hood. Photo: Julia Cartwright. Julia and Dr. Yuri…