As the recipient of a Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award, Center Director Meenakshi Wadhwa is spending 4 months doing collaborative research at the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) in Ahmedabad, India. This is the fourth in a series of digital post cards from her travels – stay tuned for future updates! Center Director Meenakshi at […]
Center Student at NASA Space Grant Statewide Symposium!
This April, Center undergraduate student Libby Dybal presented the findings of her research on Fe isotopes at the NASA Space Grant Statewide Symposium, in Tucson, AZ. In the Center's ultra-clean Isotope Cosmochemistry and Geochronology Laboratory, Libby analyzed the stable Fe isotope composition of achondrite meteorites, under the mentorship of Center Director Meenakshi Wadhwa. Working alongside […]
Inaugural Nininger Student Travel Award Winners Announced!
The Center for Meteorite Studies and the School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) are pleased to announce the winners of the inaugural Nininger Student Travel Award. The goal of this award is to support travel to the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) of up to 4 SESE undergraduate and graduate students to […]
CMS at Lunar & Planetary Science Conference!
This March, several members of the Center for Meteorites Studies presented new findings at the 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), in Houston, Texas. The Center's presentations covered a range of topics in meteoritics and cosmochemistry, including meteorites from asteroid Vesta, carbonaceous chondrites, meteorite petrology, the solar wind, and processes in the early Solar […]
Kiel
Kiel is an ordinary (L6) chondrite that fell April 26, 1962, in Kiel, Germany. The 738-gram (1.6-pound) stone went through the roof of a house, and was found the next day in the attic by the resident. No fireball or accoustic phenomena were witnessed at the time of the Kiel meteorite fall, however, the stone’s […]
