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. […]
New Research at the Center!
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 […]
Greetings from India!
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 […]
Renqiu
Renqiu is an ordinary (L6) chondrite that fell the afternoon of March 23, 1916, in Hopeh Province, China. While the stone was collected in 1916, it was not recognized as a meteorite until 1975, when the Peking Astronomical Planetarium recovered it from an elderly man whose grandfather had collected and kept the 355 g (12.5 […]
Student Research – Iron isotopes in achondrite meteorites
At this year's NASA Space Grant Student Poster Session, Center undergraduate Libby Dybal presented her research on Fe isotopes in achondrite meteorites. Libby's work is being conducted in the ultra-clean Isotope Cosmochemistry and Geochronology Laboratory under the mentorship of Center Director Meenakshi Wadhwa. The poster session highlights the research of Space Grant Students (both graduate […]
