[meteorite-list] "Must See" Meteorite Collections

[Brian Cox]

Hi Richard,

The finest and the world's largest non-government meteorite collection is 
right here in the Midwest, in Chicago, literally, in my back yard where I am 
a member and a friend of members of the staff. The Field Museum of  Natural 
History. Here below is the link to The Field's Meteorite Catalogue with a 
photo of the lovely Dr. Meenakshi Wadhwa who is no longer with The Field. 
This is an outdated photo since Dr. Wadhwa left two and a half  years ago to 
be the Curator at Arizona State University. This is only a portion of  The 
Field's collection online since it is outdated since now they have added the 
famous DuPont Collection from the famous James M. DuPont of Watchung, Jew 
Jersey, which includes 1,700 meteorites from The Planetary Studies 
Foundation of Galena, Illinois, and this has been added to The Fields 
existing collection of over 2,000 meteorites which is now at The Field in 
storage.

 The Field received gifts of funding and meteorites of over $10 million. I 
attended the ceremony of the dedication of The Robert A. Pritzker Center for 
Meteoritics and Polar Studies, earlier this year on April 18, 2009 where 
retired Colonel J.N. Pritzker founder and president of the Chicago-based 
Tawani Foundation presented The Field with a gift of $7.3 million in honor 
of his father, Robert Pritzker. I have a photo of that, but forget how to 
put that into photobucket to show all of you, but it's just a photo of the 
Pritzkers on the stage and a ribbon cutting ceremony.

You can still get a very clear view of the massive collection here and I'm 
sure they are working on updating this collection but with time and the 
economy personnel are short in getting this information online.

Here is the link to the catalogue 
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/research_collections/geology/meteor_col.pdf and 
the main link to The Field is http://www.fieldmuseum.org/   and here is the 
address and phone number.

The Field Museum, All Rights Reserved
1400 S. Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60605-2496
312.922.9410

I hope this helps with your GPS addition.

Sincerely,

Brian Cox

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Chicago, Illinois USA