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 […]
Ask a Curator Day 2015!
Ask a Curator Day was September 16th, but you can email (meteorites@asu.edu) or tweet (@ASUMeteorites) the Center any time with your questions! Ask a Curator Day is here! For one day only, September 16, curators around the world are standing by to answer your questions! Use the hashtag #AskaCurator on Twitter! You can direct questions […]
Arbol Solo
Arbol Solo is an ordinary (H5) chondrite that fell in the Socoscora District of San Luis Province, Argentina, in September of 1954. Witnesses reported seeing a bright light and hearing what sounded like a hailstorm one night, as several stones fell in the small village of Arbol Solo. The next morning, the many meteorite pieces […]
ASU Chosen to Lead Lunar CubeSat mission!
A spacecraft the size of a shoebox with Arizona origins will soon be orbiting our nearest neighbor to create a map of water-ice on the Moon. The NASA-selected CubeSat will be designed, built, and operated at Arizona State University, and is one piece of the agency’s larger mission to fully characterize the water content at […]
2014 Nininger Meteorite Award Recipients Announced!
The ASU Center for Meteorite Studies is pleased to announce that Roger Fu, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the recipient of the 2014 Nininger Meteorite Award, and Adam Sarafian, a graduate student at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution received an Honorable Mention for the award. The Nininger Meteorite Award recognizes […]
