METEORITE TESTING AND CLASSIFYING INSTITUTIONS
Note: Research the facilities below.
Samples sent for testing don't need to be large, a quarter sized fragment is all
that is needed. But please ensure that the sample is actually representative of
the rock and reveals the interior composition (eg. Do not send a rusty old flake
that's fallen off the outside). Testing may take a few days to a year depending
upon the backlog of the facility. (NEMS offers the fastest verification process)
Cascadia Meteorite Labratory
Department of Geology
Portland State University
P.O. Box 751
Portland, OR 97207-0751
Telephone: (503) 725-3372
Fax: (503) 725-3025
ruzickaa@pdx.edu
http://meteorites.pdx.edu/possible-met.htm
New England Meteoritical Services (NEMS)
P.O. Box 440
Mendon, MA USA 01756
Instructions and Pricing
E-mail: lab@meteorlab.com
Voice: 508-478-4020 Fax: 508-478-5104
Dr. Timothy J. McCoy
mccoy.tim@nmnh.si.edu
Linda Welzenbach
Welzenbach.Linda@nmnh.si.edu
Department of Mineral Sciences
NHB 119
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC 20560
call before sending sample: (202) 633-1825
Professor J. T. Wasson
Dr. Alan E. Rubin
Institute of Geophysics
University of California
Los Angeles, California 90095-1567
USA
Dr. Denton S. Ebel
debel@amnh.org
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
The American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th St.
New York, NY 10024
Dr. Edward R. D. Scott
escott@kahana.pgd.hawaii.edu
Hawaii Institute of Geophysics & Planetology
School of Ocean and Earth Science Technology
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI 96822
Dr. Derek W. Sears
meteor@comp.uark.edu
Cosmochemistry Group
Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Science
Old Museum Building room 202
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701 USA
Dr. Michael Zolensky
michael.e.zolensky@jsc.nasa.gov
NASA/Johnson Space Center
Mail Code SN2
Houston, TX 77058
Director - Meenakshi Wadhwa
Screening Test for Agreement & ID Request Form
Center for Meteorite Studies
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Arizona State University
Box 872504
Tempe, Arizona 85287- 2504
1-480-965-6511
fax 1-480-965-2747
Catherine Nicole Foley
nfoley@fieldmuseum.org
(312) 665-7656
Meteorite Catalog (pdf - large)
The Field Museum of Natural History
S. Lake Shore Dr.
Chicago, Illinois 60605
Dr. Randy Korotev
Washington University
1 Brookings Dr
Campus Box 1169
Saint Louis MO 63130-4899
what_to_do
(verification) Contact:
Alan Whittington, Asst. Professor
email: whittingtona@missouri.edu
Dept of Geological Sciences
University of Missouri-Columbia
101 Geology Building
Columbia, MO 65211-1380
(verification) Contact:
Nelson R. Shaffer
(812) 855-2687
shaffern@indiana.edu
Indiana Geological Survey
Indiana University
611 North Walnut Grove
Bloomington, IN 47405-2208
(verification) Contact:
Colorado Geological Survey
Matt Morgan
1313 Sherman St Rm 715
Denver CO , 80203
303-866-2066
matt.morgan@state.co.us
no longer able to offer meteorite classification services to
the general public.
Northern Arizona Meteorite Laboratory
T. E. Bunch & J. H. Wittke
Department of Geology
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff AZ 86011
(928) 523-9565 (lab)
(928) 523-9044 (office)
Email: James.Wittke@nau.edu
Canada - The Prairie Meteorite Search
http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/PMSearch/
Mail photos to Martin Beech
contact page
MIAC
Samples to:
Geological Survey of Canada
601 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0E8
Attention: Meteorite Identification
Dr. Monica M. Grady
M.Grady@nhm.ac.uk
Mineralogy Department
The Natural History Museum
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/
Cromwell Road
London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom
Planetary Sciences Research Institute
Open University
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA, UK
Become a Meteorite Hunter
Dr. Brigitte Zanda
meteor@mnhn.fr
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
61, rue Buffon
75005 Paris, France
Dr. Gero Kurat
Gero.Kurat@univie.ac.at
Naturhistorisches Museum
Postfach 417
A-1014 Vienna, Austria
Addi Bischoff
bischoa@uni-muenster.de
Dr. Dietmar Weber
weberd@mail.uni-muenster.de
Institut fuer Planetologie
Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10
48149 Muenster, Germany
Phone: ++49 (251) 8333465
Home: ++49 (2597) 5258
FAX: ++49 (251) 8339083
Dr. Dieter Stoffler
stoffler@museum.hu-berlin.de
Museum fur Naturkunde
Invalidenstrasse 43
D-10115 Berlin, Germany
Max-Planck-Institut fur Chemie
Joh.-Joachim-Becher-Weg 27, 55128 Mainz / Germany
Tel.: (+49 6131) 305-0
Institut fur Mineralogie und Geochemie
Universitat zu Koln
Zulpicherstrasse 49b
50674 Koln, Germany
Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry
Ulitsa Kosygina
Moscow 119991
Russia