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ASU Robert S. Dietz Museum of Geology
Arizona State University's geology museum in Tempe, housing minerals, gems and fossils from Arizona and worldwide.
Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies
ASU's meteorite research centre, renamed for Professor Peter Buseck in 2021, holds the world's largest university meteorite collection.
- Rank in Arizona
- #488of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 30.0 out of 100medium confidence
- Category
- Museum
The Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies, known until 2021 as the ASU Center for Meteorite Studies, was founded in 1960 on the Tempe campus of Arizona State University and holds the world's largest university-based meteorite collection, with specimens from more than 1,600 separate meteorite falls and finds. The collection is used internationally for research in planetary science, geology and space science, and the centre operates a meteorite museum open to the public. It was renamed in 2021 in honour of Professor Peter R. Buseck.
Where it is
Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies is a museum near Tempe, in Maricopa County. It is one of the museums in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
No official visitor count is published for Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the medium confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: http://meteorites.asu.edu/(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Museum
- Destination
- Tempe
- County
- Maricopa County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 30.0 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 0.0
- Significance score
- 55.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Official website
- meteorites.asu.edu(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 33.4179, -111.9285
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12