Not to be confused with SPACE X, the eXtraterrestrial SamPle Analysis, Curation and Exploration (XSPACE) is a new facility dedicated to “curate the meteorites and make them available to the scientific community.”

Amongst his many contributions to the field, Professor Moore with his team, first identified organic molecules in meteorites, as well as set up the first Meteorite Museum at ASU.

The Center for Lunar Science and Exploration has created a field training and research program under the direction of David Kring, scientific advisor to Barringer Crater.

Apparently earth is bombarded with an estimated 50 tonnes of meteorites daily, some of them retrieved by scientists, collectors and enthusiasts!

Great images and reasons for preferring these 10 meteorite impact sites: check them out

It is fascinating to discover so many magnificent views of craters caused by meteorites! Here’s a beautiful example of a crater, located in India, roughly the same age as Barringer Meteorite Crater

As you might expect, we receive many requests from folks to determine wether or not they have found a meteorite~ and its often is challenging to help! The Institute for Earth and Space Exploration has set up a handy flowchart to help you establish if your find is a meteorite!

Memorial, Bruce F. Bohor, the 2011 Barringer Medalist of the Meteoritical Society, passed away at this home in Gree Valley AZ on November 17, 2019. Bruce is best known in our community for his discovery of shocked quartz in layers of marking the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T, now called the Cretaceous-Paleogene, K-Pg) boundary in the central United States in the early 1980s following the famous paper by Alvarez and co-authors in Science in 1980, in which they report geochemical evidence for an asterioid impact from K-Pg boundary in Italy.

In the early morning of 30 June 1908, something exploded over Siberia. The event shattered the normal stillness of the sparsely populated taiga, so powerful that it flattened an area of forest 2,150 square kilometres (830 square miles) in size…

Analyzing satellite images showing the terrain between the villages of Qaret Had El Bahr and Qaret El Allafa, Egypt, an international research team discovered what seems to be a previously unknown crater in the midst of the Sahara Desert. The shape resembles a typical impact crater, like the famous Meteor Crater in Arizona.

The Lunar Planetary Institute announces the next Field Training and Research Program at Meteor Crater, a week-long field class and research project based at Barringer Meteorite Crater, Arizona, more popularly known as Meteor Crater.

The tiny fireball that flew over Japan in 2017 came from an asteroid that could threaten Earth in 10 million years or so. Scientists are trying to use these little meteors to hunt larger objects.