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Description: | The Hunterian Museum has over 100 meteorite and tektite specimens.
It includes some very old and historically important material, such as the Krasnojarsk pallasite from William Hunter's collection, dating from the period before meteorites were thought to be space rocks. Another very important early meteorite is the High Possil meteorite, which fell in Glasgow in April 1804. The fall was witnessed by several people and detailed eye-witness accounts were taken, making this one of the first scientifically proven cases of rock falling from the sky, where thunderstorms and volcanoes could be discounted.
The collection contains a good range of chondritic stony meteorites (plus some thin and polished micrsocope sections) including Wold Cottage, L'Aigle, Pultusk, Holbrook, Allende, Kainsaz and others. There is also a good range of stony-iron and iron meteorites inlcluding Imilac, Crab Orchard, Vaca Muerta, Canon Diablo, Toluca, Henbury, Grand Rapids, Coahuila, Butler and many more. We are still interested in acquiring further meteorites, especially achondrites. | Subjects: | Geology; Astronomy | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Address: | University of Glasgow,
University Avenue,
G12 8QQ | Creator: | John Faithfull | Contributor: | Various | Identifier: | C-0041 |
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