Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

Canon City is an ordinary (H6) chondrite that fell in Fremont County, Colorado. A meteor observed the evening of October 27, 1973, was likely associated with the meteorite, which was found after puncturing the roof of a garage sometime that same night.  While the house’s residents were away for the evening, the meteorite’s arrival surely…

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 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 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…

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…