[meteorite-list] Best institutional tektite collections?

From: Aubrey Whymark <tektites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:46:48 +0800
Message-ID: <c4604300904182046sc2033f2tff416460a7ef237d_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi List

I started some museum pages on my website a while back, it would be
great to add to these museums if anyone has photos of tektite
collections. www.tektites.co.uk/museums

The British Museum of Natural History currently has a very poor
display, bar a few nice Ivory Coast tektites. I believe this may
improve in the future.

The French Natural History Museum sadly has no tektites on display,
despite the work by Lacroix.

I believe the Czech Natural History Museum has a good display, but I
have no more information.

In Australia I guess there are a number of excellent displays -
Certainly a good display is found in the Western Australian Museum.

In the US I have little information - if you have some info and photos
of tektite displays you can email me at aubrey at tektites.co.uk for
inclusion in my webpage. I have learnt that Virgil Barnes donated his
collection to the Texas Memorial Museum

In the Philippines I believe there are no displays. There used to be
one at the Planetarium, but that was under renovation, and I believe
still is. No idea if tektites will be back on display there when it
opens again.

Regards, Aubrey
www.tektites.co.uk


On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Phil Morgan <roxfromspace at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I was wondering where some of the better tektite collections are
> located and how much is on display. ?I'm mostly interested in the US
> but feel free to include others. ?Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Phil
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