Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

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…

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…

Congratulations to Center undergraduate student worker Elizabeth (Libby) Dybal, who has been awarded a NASA Undergraduate Space Grant Fellowship! Utilizing the Center for Meteorite Studies ultra-clean Isotope Cosmochemistry and Geochronology Laboratory, Libby will be analyzing the stable Fe isotope composition of achondrite meteorites, under the mentorship of Center Director Meenakshi Wadhwa.  Working alongside upper-level graduate…

School of Earth & Space Exploration Post Doctoral Scholar Julia Cartwright has written a chapter for the most recent volume of the European Mineralogical Union (EMU) Notes in Mineralogy series.  Her chapter, "Noble gas chemistry of planetary materials" appears in Planetary Mineralogy (volume 15 in the series), published this year by the EMU.   Dr….