Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

Ash Creek is an ordinary (L6) chondrite that fell in McLennan County, Texas. The morning of Sunday, February 15, 2009, a bright fireball was witnessed traveling SE from Austin to Fort Worth, and was even recorded by a local television news cameraman.  According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB96), “sonic booms were widely heard for a…

The Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University is pleased to announce the application opportunity for the 2015 Nininger Meteorite Award for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing research in meteoritical sciences. The Nininger Meteorite Award recognizes outstanding student achievement in the meteoritical sciences as embodied by an original research paper. The 2015 Nininger Meteorite…

Ucera is an ordinary (H5) chondrite that fell the evening of January 16, 1970, near Coro, Venezuela. Originally reported as a potential iron meteorite, under the name Coro, the Ucera meteorite classification was corrected and updated in 1971 (MB 50): "A crusted stone was recovered by a farmer in Ucera, the specimen having fallen near…

The Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University is pleased to announce the application opportunity for the first annual Nininger Student Travel Award for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing research in meteoritics and planetary sciences. The Nininger Student Travel Award supports travel to the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) of up to 4…

2015   Season's Greetings   from the   Center for Meteorite Studies Read about Creston, the latest US meteorite fall, and its recovery here! Photo credit: L. Garvie/CMS.