[meteorite-list] Museum Online Collections

From: almitt <almitt_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:52:10 2004
Message-ID: <3D562406.F9F2EFBE_at_kconline.com>

Hi Rob and all,

This is splitting hairs just a bit but is better than the arguments raging on the list
that belong off the list. Having been to both the Field Museum in Chicago and just
recently to the Institute of Meteoritics in Albuquerque, I was told by the curators in
both cases the number of current specimens in the collections of each. For the Field a
total of 1400 now exist and for the Institute of Meteoritics in Albuquerque a total of
over 600. Of course they are always loaning specimens for research and the total on
the premises differs. For you number buffs.

6. Field Museum of Natural History Chicago, IL, USA ? / 1284 Online
Collection Catalog

13. Institute of Meteoritics Albuquerque, New Mexico USA ? / 565 Online
Collection Catalog
Rob Wesel wrote:

> The Jensen boys sent this one out a while back:
>
> Largest Meteorite Collections in the World (By Distinct Falls)
>
> 1. National Institute of Polar Research Tokyo, Japan
> 2. Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC, USA 17,000 specimens / 9250
> distinct
> 3. The Natural History Museum London, England ? / 2000
> 4. NASA JSC Houston, Texas USA 4000 / ? Online Collection Catalog
> 5. Museum of Natural History Berlin, Germany 3800 / 1287 Computerized dB
> available to researchers only
> 6. Field Museum of Natural History Chicago, IL, USA ? / 1284 Online
> Collection Catalog
> 7. Max Planck Institute for Chemistry Mainz, Germany 1250 / ? Online
> Collection Catalog
> 8. ASU Center for Meteorite Studies Tempe, Arizona, USA ?/ 1200 No Catalog
> available
> 8. National Museum of Natural History Paris, France Online Collection
> Catalog
>
> 9. American Museum of Natural History New York, New York USA 5000 / 1100
> Online Collection Catalog
> 10. The Geological Survey of Canada 1500/ ?
> 11. TCU/Monnig Collection Ft. Worth Texas USA 1523 / 950 Online Collection
> Catalog
> 12. UCLA Los Angeles CA USA
> 13. Institute of Meteoritics Albuquerque, New Mexico USA ? / 565 Online
> Collection Catalog
Received on Sun 11 Aug 2002 04:44:54 AM PDT