Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

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 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…

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…

ASU Center for Meteorite Studies collection manager and curator Dr. Laurence Garvie has been featured on ASU Now!  The piece, entitled "The dangers we face from meteorites – or not", follows Dr. Garvie's recent presentation as part of the New Discoveries Lecture Series, in the School of Earth and Space Exploration.  Read the full article…

Delve into current research at the Center with this new periodic feature, and catch a glimpse of what our students and scientists are working on right now! Center Assistant Director Devin Schrader is at the University of Arizona's Michael J. Drake Electron Microprobe Laboratory, preparing lunar meteorites for x-Ray element mapping in the Cameca SX100…