Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

New images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) show impact glass within the craters of Mars! As of February, 2015, the MRO has completed 40,000 orbits of the red planet over nine years, and transmitted 247 terabytes of data on the Martian atmosphere, surface, and subsurface.  Researchers have found deposits of impact glass (in green)…

The Philae lander has awoken on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, and is communicating via the Rosetta orbiter! Philae spent ten years aboard Rosetta, travelling the 405 million kilometres (just over 251 million miles) between Earth and the spacecraft's cometary destination. Shortly after landing on the comet in mid-November of 2014, the lander went into hibernation.  The Rosetta…

Arroyo Aguiar is an ordinary (H5) chondrite that fell the summer of 1950, in Argentina.  The fall was witnessed by a local rancher, near the railway station Arroyo Aguiar, in La Capital Department of Santa Fe Province. The single stone recovered weighed 7.45 kg (over 16 lbs), and had embedded itself 50 cm (almost 20…

Three scientists in Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) — Philip Christensen, Mikhail Zolotov, and Everett Shock — are involved with NASA's newly announced robotic mission to investigate whether conditions suitable for life exist at Jupiter's moon Europa. The mission, scheduled for launch in the 2020s, will follow up on the…

March 1st through August 31st at the Verde Valley Archaeology Center, a special exhibit features meteorites in prehistoric cultures, including the 135 lb meteorite found in a Camp Verde Sinagua ruin in 1915!  Click here for more details! Watch the exhibit's opening remarks, given by Center for Meteorite Studies Collection Curator Dr. Laurence Garvie, below!