Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

When NASA's Dawn spacecraft approached the dwarf planet Ceres in March this year, scientists and the public alike were intrigued to see that Ceres has a dark, heavily cratered surface with dozens of bright white spots, large and small. Even more puzzling, the bright spots lie in all kinds of terrain and appear variously as…

The Center for Meteorite Studies is pleased to welcome Rebecca Davis! As Program Coordinator, Rebecca will support the Center with financial, sponsored projects, and human resource management. She is also an active participant in the Center's education and outreach activities, such as Earth & Space Exploration Day.  Rebecca comes to the Center from the ASU…

The newest meteorite to fall in the US was classified right here at the Center, by Collection Curator Laurence Garvie! Creston is an L6 (ordinary) chondrite that fell spectacularly in California October 23, 2015, and is California's 5th observed meteorite fall. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 104), “…a large fireball lit up the rolling…

Congratulations to Susan Nowak on her recent retirement!  In addition to serving as Business Manager, Susie was an active participant in outreach activities, and her more than 13 years of dedicated service in the Center for Meteorite Studies are greatly appreciated. While she'll certainly be missed, we wish Susie all the best!

ASU researchers to study what elements are created by exploding stars Apart from hydrogen, as many have heard from the Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson "Cosmos" series, every ingredient in the human body is made from elements forged by stars. The calcium in our bones, the oxygen we breathe, the iron in our blood…