Our collection pages contain information about hundreds of interesting meteorites as well as the unique stories about where they came from and how each of them made their way to earth... The "Collection Photos" section has over 1,800 digital images of meteorites and related information.

The UCLA Museum of Meteorites is the largest on the West Coast and contains over 2500 samples from about 1500 different meteorites. It is the fifth largest collection of meteorites in the United States and the second largest housed at a university.

Nov 7, 2019 · The world-class meteorite collection at the Field Museum's Robert A. Pritzker Center is an invaluable resource to the cosmochemistry and meteoritics community. The meteorite collection currently includes 1,791 different meteorites and 13,084 specimens.

The National Meteorite Collection is one the largest and most complete museum-based collections in the world. The modern meteorite collection includes more than 45,000 specimens of more than 16,850 distinct meteorites, including almost 10,000 polished thin sections.

The Yale Peabody Museum’s Division of Mineralogy & Meteoritics oversees a scientifically and historically important collection of more than 60,000 mineral, roughly 5,000 meteorite, and 100,000 rock specimens.

The Vatican Observatory Meteorite collection is one of the major meteorite collections in the world, with over 1100 samples of more than 500 different falls, representing nearly 150 kg of extraterrestrial material.

The UCLA Collection of Meteorites is one of the largest meteorite collections in the United States. The collection of meteorites began in 1934 when William Andrews Clark, Jr. donated a 357 lb (162 kg) fragment of the Canyon Diablo meteorite, now known as the Clark Iron.

In the coming days, you will be able to browse through my meteorite collection and read accounts of my meteorite hunting expeditons around the world. Need more information? Visit our Iron from the Sky collection pages for information about previous expeditions and recovered specimens.

The UCLA Collection of Meteorites provides material not only for the research of Wasson, Rubin, and others at UCLA, but often also for investigators at other American universities, including Cal Tech, the University of New Mexico, Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of …

Jan 3, 2025 · He would become perhaps the single most accomplished collector of meteorites ever, and that collection would seed generations of cutting-edge space research at Arizona State University.