METEORITE TESTING AND CLASSIFYING INSTITUTIONS

Note: Due to the increased interest in meteorites and the lack of funding, the facilities listed below may no longer be testing suspect meteorites for the general public. Please contact the facility and verify their policy and procedures before sending any samples (as your samples may not be returned to you)!

Samples sent for testing don't need to be large, a quarter sized fragment is all that is needed. But please ensure that the sample is actually representative of the rock and reveals the interior composition (eg. Do not send a rusty old flake that's fallen off the outside). Testing may take a few days to a year depending upon the backlog of the facility. (NEMS offers the fastest verification process)

Cascadia Meteorite Labratory
Department of Geology
Portland State University
P.O. Box 751
Portland, OR 97207-0751
Telephone: (503) 725-3372
Fax: (503) 725-3025
ruzickaa@pdx.edu
http://meteorites.pdx.edu/
http://meteorites.pdx.edu/possible-met.htm

New England Meteoritical Services (NEMS)
P.O. Box 440
Mendon, MA USA 01756
Instructions and Pricing
E-mail: lab@meteorlab.com
Voice: 508-478-4020 Fax: 508-478-5104

Dr. Timothy J. McCoy
mccoyt@si.edu
Linda Welzenbach
welzenbl@si.edu
Department of Mineral Sciences
NHB 119
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC 20560
call before sending sample: (202) 633-1825

Professor J. T. Wasson
Dr. Alan E. Rubin
Institute of Geophysics
University of California
Los Angeles, California 90095-1567
USA

Dr. Denton S. Ebel
debel@amnh.org
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
The American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th St.
New York, NY 10024

(verification) University of North Texas
Astronomy Dept.
Ron DiIulio email
(940)369-7655

Dr. Edward R. D. Scott
escott@kahana.pgd.hawaii.edu
Hawaii Institute of Geophysics & Planetology
School of Ocean and Earth Science Technology
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI 96822

Dr. Derek W. Sears
meteor@comp.uark.edu
Cosmochemistry Group
Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Science
Old Museum Building room 202
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701 USA

Director - Meenakshi Wadhwa
Screening Test for Agreement & ID Request Form
Center for Meteorite Studies
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Arizona State University
Box 872504
Tempe, Arizona 85287- 2504
1-480-965-6511
fax 1-480-965-2747

The Field Museum of Natural History
see:
The Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies
S. Lake Shore Dr.
Chicago, Illinois 60605
Meteorites: Philipp R. Heck
Suspect Meteorite Form (pdf)

Dr. Randy Korotev
Washington University
1 Brookings Dr
Campus Box 1169
Saint Louis MO 63130-4899
what_to_do

(verification only) Contact:
Nelson R. Shaffer
(812) 855-2687
shaffern@indiana.edu
Indiana Geological Survey
Indiana University
611 North Walnut Grove
Bloomington, IN 47405-2208

(verification) Contact:
Colorado Geological Survey
Matt Morgan
1313 Sherman St Rm 715
Denver CO , 80203
303-866-2066
matt.morgan@state.co.us

NO longer able to offer meteorite classification services to the general public:

Northern Arizona Meteorite Laboratory
T. E. Bunch & J. H. Wittke
Department of Geology
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff AZ 86011
(928) 523-9565 (lab)
(928) 523-9044 (office)
Email: James.Wittke@nau.edu

Center for Meteorite Studies Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Arizona State University Box 872504 Tempe, Arizona

Dr. Michael Zolensky michael.e.zolensky@jsc.nasa.gov NASA/Johnson Space Center Mail Code SN2 Houston, TX 77058

Canada - The Prairie Meteorite Search
http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/PMSearch/
Mail photos to Martin Beech
contact page

Dr. Monica M. Grady
M.Grady@nhm.ac.uk
Mineralogy Department
The Natural History Museum
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/
Cromwell Road
London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom

Planetary Sciences Research Institute
Open University
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA, UK
Become a Meteorite Hunter

Dr. Brigitte Zanda
meteor@mnhn.fr
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
61, rue Buffon
75005 Paris, France

Dr. Franz Brandstätter
franz.brandstaetter@nhm-wien.ac.at
Dept. of Mineralogy and Petrography
Naturhistorisches Museum
Burgring 7
A-1010 Vienna, Austria

Addi Bischoff
bischoa@uni-muenster.de
Dr. Dietmar Weber
weberd@mail.uni-muenster.de
Institut fuer Planetologie
Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10
48149 Muenster, Germany
Phone: ++49 (251) 8333465
Home: ++49 (2597) 5258
FAX: ++49 (251) 8339083

Dr. Dieter Stoffler
stoffler@museum.hu-berlin.de
Museum fur Naturkunde
Invalidenstrasse 43
D-10115 Berlin, Germany

Max-Planck-Institut fur Chemie
Joh.-Joachim-Becher-Weg 27, 55128 Mainz / Germany
Tel.: (+49 6131) 305-0

Institut fur Mineralogie und Geochemie
Universitat zu Koln
Zulpicherstrasse 49b
50674 Koln, Germany

Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry
Ulitsa Kosygina
Moscow 119991
Russia