Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

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!

As one of this year’s Fulbright Scholars, Arizona State University cosmochemist Meenakshi Wadhwa will have an opportunity to work at India’s premier research institute for the space sciences. She will be working on collaborative research involving studies of a unique Mars meteorite to understand the origin and history of water on Mars. “It is my…

Kera Tucker received her B.S. in Geology from Oregon State University in 2011. As an undergraduate student, Kera worked with Dr. Anita Grunder on the geochemical classification of pumices found in Oregon’s Hampton Tuff ignimbrite. The results of this research were presented at the 2011 Geological Society of America’s Rocky Mountain and Cordilleran Joint Meeting…