Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

March 18th, ASU hosted Sun Devil Giving Day: A day for the Sun Devil Nation to come together to empower students, advance research, and improve lives. We are truly grateful to everyone who showed their support for the Center for Meteorite Studies, and made Sun Devil Giving Day a success.  Your gifts help support our…

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 second in a series of digital post cards from her travels – stay tuned for future updates! Center Director Meenakshi Wadhwa…

ASU's School of Earth & Space Exploration has been chosen by the US Airforce to construct a new satellite to search for threats to Earth from space.  The shoebox-sized SWIMSat (Space Weather and Impact Monitoring Satellite) is to be built at ASU by students, and will monitor solar plasma eruptions as well as meteor strikes. …

Later this month, several members of the Center for Meteorites Studies will present new findings at the 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), in Houston, Texas.  The Center's presentations cover a range of topics in meteoritics and cosmochemistry, including meteorites from asteroid Vesta, carbonaceous chondrites, meteorite petrology, the solar wind, and processes in the…

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 first in a series of digital post cards from her travels – stay tuned for future updates! Besides my collaborative research…