[meteorite-list] ASU's Arizona Meteorite Display

al mitt almitt at kconline.com
Tue May 17 19:35:53 EDT 2011


Hi Jim and all,

The February 2010 Meteorite Magazine has my ASU article in it with pictures 
of a number of the specimens in the collection. I'd recommend you check that 
out if you subscribe to Meteorite Magazine.
If not you can buy a back issue from them.

The interesting thing about the ASU Collection is that it is a good portion 
of the Nininger Collection that was sold to them by the Niningers. Harvey 
Nininger felt a decent collection was needed out west for people to visit 
and was reasonably close to the Meteor Crater (same state). Researchers have 
the opportunity to visit both sites without having to travel across the 
county.

Carleton Moore was the first curator of the collection before he retired. He 
is still important to assisting with the collection. Carleton built the 
collection up by adding the Foote Collection later on and adding to it by 
trades over the many years he took care of it, making it one of the largest 
collections in the world. He also did the first serious modern research on 
the collection adding no doubt to our understanding of meteorites and our 
solar system.

Anyone thanking about visiting the collection should do so.

--AL Mitterling


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Wooddell" <jimwooddell at gmail.com>
To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 11:16 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] ASU's Arizona Meteorite Display


> Good morning List!
>
> I was playing the game, Name That Meteorite, and was doing some
> research on Arizona meteorites.  I came across some pictures of the
> Center For Meteorite Studies Arizona Meteorite display and it appeared
> be missing a lot of Az meteorites.  I do not know how old these
> pictures were that I found.
> Does anyone have any recent pictures of this Display?  If so, I'd sure
> appreciate seeing them.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Jim Wooddell
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