Meteorite Museum
Visited
2017.11.16
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Meteorite Museum is located in Northrop Hall on the Main Campus of the University of New Mexico, and is home to meteorites from the extensive collection of the Institute of Meteoritics.
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A pallasite found in my home state of Kansas.
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The highlight of the museum is this one-ton piece of the stony meteorite, that fell in Norton County, Kansas in 1948.
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The ablation — loss of mass from the surface of the meteoroid by vaporization or as molten droplets — is notable on this specimen.
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This is a piece of the meteorite responsible for the giant Meteor Crater near Winslow, Arizona.
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An octahedrite iron meteorite, featuring Widmanstätten patterns. The patterns cannot be reproduced in a lab, because they only occur with very slow cooling over the course of millions of years.
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This is the backlit cut face of a pallasite — a class of stony-iron meteorite.