A display highlighting LPL’s work on asteroids and meteorites has been constructed by Dolores Hill and installed in U.S. Representative Martha McSally’s office in Washington, D.C. University of Arizona President Ann Weaver Hart officially presented the display to Rep. McSally on April 22.

The display includes models of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and its target, the asteroid Bennu, as well information about LPL’s asteroid surveys, Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) and SPACEWATCH®, and a sample of the Almahata Sitta meteorite, which was discovered as an asteroid by CSS before impacting Earth the next day. There is also information about the planetary defense aspect of asteroid studies, with photos of the Chelyabinsk fireball and Meteor Crater, and samples of the resulting meteorites from each, and information about some other meteorites of local interest.