The Department of Physics and Astronomy at UC Riverside has purchased a collection of meteorites for use in show and tell activities at local public schools. The collection includes iron, stony-iron, achondrite, chondrite and tektite pieces, some of which come from the Moon, Mars and the asteroid Vesta. Pieces were purchased through the National Science Foundation AST-1615814 grant awarded to Prof. George Becker; the collection was curated by Dr. Mario De Leo-Winkler and Dr. Jessica Miller-Camp.
The collection is unofficially named the Arthur C. Clarke Meteorite Collection, in honor of the British science fiction writer, who prominently featured asteroids and meteorites in his works.
Click on the links below to know more about each meteorite, or you can search for meteorites in The Meteoritical Society’s database.
|METEORITE||TYPE||COLLECTED FROM||WEIGHT (g)|
|Canyon Diablo CD426-9||Iron Coarse Octahedrite||Arizona||427|
|Sikhote-Alin SA54-21||Iron Coarsest Octahedrite||Russia||54.2|
|Seymchan SEY21-91||Stony-Iron IIE Pallasite||Russia||21.9|
|Gebel Kamil GK20-3||Iron Nickel-Rich Ataxite Ion||Egypt||20.3|
|NWA 1929-13-7||Howardite Achondrite||Morocco||13.7|
|Gujba GUJ6-56||Chondrite Bencubbin-Like||Nigeria||6.5|
|NWA 7297-109||Martian Shergottite Achondrite||Morocco||0.109|
|NWA 7948-066||Lunar Achondrite Feldspathic Breccia||Sahara Desert||0.056|