Thika is an ordinary (L6) chondrite that fell in central Kenya the morning of July 16, 2011. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 100): A bright fireball in multiple pieces was observed from southern Kenya traveling to the northwest around 10 am on the July 16, 2011. Residents around Kiambu County in the Thika District […]
BCMS at 2024 Meteoritical Society meeting
This July, members of the Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies will present new findings at the annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society, held in Brussels, Belgium. The Center’s research presentations cover a range of topics in meteoritics and cosmochemistry, including presolar grains, lunar meteorites, samples returned from asteroids, carbonaceous chondrites, the solar wind, mineralogy, and […]
Center hosts Microparticle Handling Workshop!
In conjunction with the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) and the NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC), Center Director Rhonda Stroud and her research group hosted the Small Sample Handling workshop in early June. Because the study and analysis of extraterrestrial samples play a crucial role in advancing our understanding of our Solar System, and given […]
Mapping the trapped solar wind He in nanophase Fe metal with electron microscopy.
Lunar soils contain helium implanted as high energy ions from the solar wind, but not all soils grains retain helium equally. Better understanding of the helium retention could enable its use as resource for future lunar missions. In a new paper published in the scientific journal Communications Earth & Environment, Center Director Rhonda Stroud and […]
Nakhla
Nakhla is a martian achondrite that fell June 28th, 1911, in Al Buhayrah, Egypt. At the time of the fall, a newspaper article was published claiming the meteorite had hit a dog on entry. This was never proven, but did inspire a Peanuts cartoon strip, in which Linus and Charlie Brown discuss the meteorite striking […]
