The moon is pelted with cosmic debris all the time, but the largest explosion on its surface that we’ve actually recorded occurred two years ago today. On March 17, 2013, an object the size of a small boulder hit the surface in Mare Imbrium and exploded in a flash of light nearly 10 times as […]
ASU Camera Will Help NASA Land on Mars in 2016!
NASA's next Mars space probe, a lander named InSight, is due to touch down on the Red Planet in September 2016 with a mission focused on the planet's internal properties. Its landing place has been chosen with help from a Mars-orbiting, heat-sensitive camera designed and operated at Arizona State University. Working at nine infrared and […]
2014 Nininger Meteorite Award Application Open!
The Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University is pleased to announce the application opportunity for the 2014 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 2014 Nininger Meteorite […]
Follow the Center for Meteorite Studies on Twitter!
The Center for Meteorite Studies is now on Twitter! Follow us for news, upcoming events, and behind-the-scenes glimpses of the meteorite collection! Follow @ASUMeteorites Tweets by @ASUMeteorites […]
Jilin
Jilin is an ordinary (H5) chondrite that fell the afternoon of March 8, 1976 in the northern part of the district of Kirin, Kirin Province, China. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB59): At about 1500 hr on 8 March 1976 a red fireball moving SW was sighted by townspeople of Hsinglung. During flight here were […]
