[meteorite-list] Grand Opening of UCLA Meteorite Gallery
Arlene was a prolific contributor to the Meteorite Picture of the Day. Her photographic techniques were varied - whimsical, unusual, artistic - and her photos were always well done. Check them out at http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodgroup.asp?MC=CNM=arlene schlazer Thank you, Arlene, for your support of the MPOD. I will miss your photographs but I hope others will step up to fill the gap. Paul Swartz IMCA 5204 MPOD Hi Alan and list The UCLA Meteorite Gallery's grand opening will be held at 4 p.m. on Jan. 10 and is invitation-only. The event will honor Arlene and Ted Schlazer, who donated more than 60 exhibit-worthy meteorites to UCLA, as well as a bequest for an endowed chair (the first in the UCLA Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences) in cosmo-chemistry and meteorite research. UCLA Chancellor Gene Block is scheduled to speak at the opening. Congratulations to Arlene and Ted for the great donation to UCLA , way to go! Sonny __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
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Congratulations to UCLA on the grand opening of their excellent new meteorite museum! I had the pleasure of seeing the exhibit near completion recently, and I highly recommend that any meteorite enthusiasts pay a visit. They have many fine specimens on display. An auspicious start to the new year for the meteorite community! Cheers, Doug Ross __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Grand Opening of UCLA Meteorite Gallery
I would like everyone to know that tomorrow afternoon, Friday Jan. 10, is the formal grand opening of the UCLA Meteorite Gallery, located on the third floor of the Geology Building on the UCLA Campus. The Museum will be open weekdays from 9:00 A.M to 4:00 P.M. and the occasional weekend afternoon. (Hours will be posted on our website: www.meteorites.ucla.edu ) The gallery is free to the public. I invite any meteorite enthusiasts visiting Southern California to come by sometime for a visit. The press release is appended below. Alan Space rocks hit UCLA: California's largest meteorite museum opens on campus (Note to editors and reporters: To attend the invitation-only grand opening of the UCLA Meteorite Gallery on Friday, Jan. 10, at 4 p.m., please contact Stuart Wolpert at swolp...@support.ucla.edu or 310-206-0511.) California's largest collection of meteorites, and the fifth-largest collection in the nation, is on display in the new UCLA Meteorite Gallery, which is free to the public. The museum, located in UCLA's Geology Building (Room 3697) is open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on some weekend afternoons; please visit the gallery's website, www.meteorites.ucla.edu, for details. A centerpiece of the museum is a 357-pound iron chunk of an asteroid that crashed into Arizona some 50,000 years ago, creating a mile-wide crater just east of Flagstaff. Visitors are allowed to touch the venerable object, which like most other meteorites and like the Earth itself is 4.5 billion years old, said John Wasson, the gallery's curator and a UCLA professor of geochemistry and chemistry. Meteorites are rocks ejected from asteroids, comets, planets or the moon that have traveled through interplanetary space and landed on the Earth's surface. The vast majority come from asteroids. Our goal is to make this gallery the world's best scientifically oriented meteorite museum, Wasson said. Our collection is by far the largest in California and is a gift to the people of Southern California. The opportunity to learn in scientific detail about meteorites has not been available in California before. The collection houses specimens of nearly 1,500 meteorites that illustrate the scientific processes that were active in the early solar system. About 100 of these - representing a wide variety of meteorite types - are currently on display. These include chondrites, which contain large numbers of tiny rocky spherules known as chondrules. The origin of chondrules remains very much a mystery, Wasson said. It appears they were created from clumps of dust in the solar nebula - the gas and dust cloud that existed before planets and asteroids formed - and were zapped in a way that is still unknown. The gallery's images of primitive chondritic meteorites taken with a scanning electron microscope offer detailed views of chondrules. The museum also features backlit samples of a class of beautiful meteorites called pallasites, which contain silicate minerals mixed with metal. These specimens formed at the interface between the metallic core and the silicate mantle of an asteroid, Wasson said. We have no sample of the core of any of the planets or even a major moon, but many of the iron meteorites are samples of an asteroid's core, and they differ from one another, Wasson said. Wasson, a member of UCLA's faculty since 1964, has devoted his scientific career to studying meteorites. Meteorites are fragments that were, in part, the building blocks of the planets, he said. Many of these are the first rocks that formed anywhere in the solar system. They have information about the earliest history of the solar system that we cannot learn from the Earth itself. One of the gallery's exhibits explains how to correctly identify meteorites. Detailed explanations of the samples are provided in display cases and brochures. Alan Rubin, the associate curator of the gallery and a researcher in UCLA's Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, is an expert in identifying meteorites. He receives samples every few days from people who believe they have found meteorites. They almost never are real meteorites, he said, adding that less than 1 percent actually come from beyond the Earth. Some of these objects mistaken for meteorites - including ordinary rocks, petrified wood and metal slag - are on display in an exhibit aptly titled meteorwrongs. For many years, we've collected beautiful exhibit specimens of meteorites but kept them locked in inaccessible cabinets, Rubin said. It's great to be able to put them out on display for people to see. UCLA's collection of meteorites has grown to nearly 3,000 specimens under the stewardship of Wasson and Rubin, and is among the most extensive in the world. The UCLA Meteorite Gallery's grand opening will be held at 4 p.m. on Jan. 10 and is invitation-only. The event will honor Arlene and Ted
Re: [meteorite-list] Grand Opening of UCLA Meteorite Gallery
Hi Alan and list The UCLA Meteorite Gallery's grand opening will be held at 4 p.m. on Jan. 10 and is invitation-only. The event will honor Arlene and Ted Schlazer, who donated more than 60 exhibit-worthy meteorites to UCLA, as well as a bequest for an endowed chair (the first in the UCLA Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences) in cosmo-chemistry and meteorite research. UCLA Chancellor Gene Block is scheduled to speak at the opening. Congratulations to Arlene and Ted for the great donation to UCLA , way to go! Sonny -Original Message- From: Alan Rubin aeru...@ucla.edu To: meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thu, Jan 9, 2014 9:47 am Subject: [meteorite-list] Grand Opening of UCLA Meteorite Gallery I would like everyone to know that tomorrow afternoon, Friday Jan. 10, is the formal grand opening of the UCLA Meteorite Gallery, located on the third floor of the Geology Building on the UCLA Campus. The Museum will be open weekdays from 9:00 A.M to 4:00 P.M. and the occasional weekend afternoon. (Hours will be posted on our website: www.meteorites.ucla.edu ) The gallery is free to the public. I invite any meteorite enthusiasts visiting Southern California to come by sometime for a visit.The press release is appended below.AlanSpace rocks hit UCLA: California's largest meteorite museum opens on campus(Note to editors and reporters: To attend the invitation-only grand opening of the UCLA Meteorite Gallery on Friday, Jan. 10, at 4 p.m., please contact Stuart Wolpert at swolp...@support.ucla.edu or 310-206-0511.)California's largest collection of meteorites, and the fifth-largest collection in the nation, is on display in the new UCLA Meteorite Gallery, which is free to the public. The museum, located in UCLA's Geology Building (Room 3697) is open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on some weekend afternoons; please visit the gallery's website, www.meteorites.ucla.edu, for details.A centerpiece of the museum is a 357-pound iron chunk of an asteroid that crashed into Arizona some 50,000 years ago, creating a mile-wide crater just east of Flagstaff. Visitors are allowed to touch the venerable object, which like most other meteorites and like the Earth itself is 4.5 billion years old, said John Wasson, the gallery's curator and a UCLA professor of geochemistry and chemistry.Meteorites are rocks ejected from asteroids, comets, planets or the moon that have traveled through interplanetary space and landed on the Earth's surface. The vast majority come from asteroids.Our goal is to make this gallery the world's best scientifically oriented meteorite museum, Wasson said. Our collection is by far the largest in California and is a gift to the people of Southern California. The opportunity to learn in scientific detail about meteorites has not been available in California before.The collection houses specimens of nearly 1,500 meteorites that illustrate the scientific processes that were active in the early solar system. About 100 of these - representing a wide variety of meteorite types - are currently on display.These include chondrites, which contain large numbers of tiny rocky spherules known as chondrules. The origin of chondrules remains very much a mystery, Wasson said. It appears they were created from clumps of dust in the solar nebula - the gas and dust cloud that existed before planets and asteroids formed - and were zapped in a way that is still unknown. The gallery's images of primitive chondritic meteorites taken with a scanning electron microscope offer detailed views of chondrules.The museum also features backlit samples of a class of beautiful meteorites called pallasites, which contain silicate minerals mixed with metal. These specimens formed at the interface between the metallic core and the silicate mantle of an asteroid, Wasson said.We have no sample of the core of any of the planets or even a major moon, but many of the iron meteorites are samples of an asteroid's core, and they differ from one another, Wasson said.Wasson, a member of UCLA's faculty since 1964, has devoted his scientific career to studying meteorites.Meteorites are fragments that were, in part, the building blocks of the planets, he said. Many of these are the first rocks that formed anywhere in the solar system. They have information about the earliest history of the solar system that we cannot learn from the Earth itself.One of the gallery's exhibits explains how to correctly identify meteorites. Detailed explanations of the samples are provided in display cases and brochures.Alan Rubin, the associate curator of the gallery and a researcher in UCLA's Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, is an expert in identifying meteorites. He receives samples every few days from people who believe they have found meteorites.They almost never are real meteorites, he said, adding that less than 1 percent actually
Re: [meteorite-list] Grand Opening of UCLA Meteorite Gallery
This is wonderful news! Hopefully one day I will get to travel out to LA again and see this display. Congratulations to Alan Rubin, and all who were involved with this major project!!! Ed Deckert - Original Message - From: Alan Rubin aeru...@ucla.edu To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 12:46 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Grand Opening of UCLA Meteorite Gallery I would like everyone to know that tomorrow afternoon, Friday Jan. 10, is the formal grand opening of the UCLA Meteorite Gallery, located on the third floor of the Geology Building on the UCLA Campus. The Museum will be open weekdays from 9:00 A.M to 4:00 P.M. and the occasional weekend afternoon. (Hours will be posted on our website: www.meteorites.ucla.edu ) The gallery is free to the public. I invite any meteorite enthusiasts visiting Southern California to come by sometime for a visit. The press release is appended below. Alan Space rocks hit UCLA: California's largest meteorite museum opens on campus (Note to editors and reporters: To attend the invitation-only grand opening of the UCLA Meteorite Gallery on Friday, Jan. 10, at 4 p.m., please contact Stuart Wolpert at swolp...@support.ucla.edu or 310-206-0511.) California's largest collection of meteorites, and the fifth-largest collection in the nation, is on display in the new UCLA Meteorite Gallery, which is free to the public. The museum, located in UCLA's Geology Building (Room 3697) is open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on some weekend afternoons; please visit the gallery's website, www.meteorites.ucla.edu, for details. A centerpiece of the museum is a 357-pound iron chunk of an asteroid that crashed into Arizona some 50,000 years ago, creating a mile-wide crater just east of Flagstaff. Visitors are allowed to touch the venerable object, which like most other meteorites and like the Earth itself is 4.5 billion years old, said John Wasson, the gallery's curator and a UCLA professor of geochemistry and chemistry. Meteorites are rocks ejected from asteroids, comets, planets or the moon that have traveled through interplanetary space and landed on the Earth's surface. The vast majority come from asteroids. Our goal is to make this gallery the world's best scientifically oriented meteorite museum, Wasson said. Our collection is by far the largest in California and is a gift to the people of Southern California. The opportunity to learn in scientific detail about meteorites has not been available in California before. The collection houses specimens of nearly 1,500 meteorites that illustrate the scientific processes that were active in the early solar system. About 100 of these - representing a wide variety of meteorite types - are currently on display. These include chondrites, which contain large numbers of tiny rocky spherules known as chondrules. The origin of chondrules remains very much a mystery, Wasson said. It appears they were created from clumps of dust in the solar nebula - the gas and dust cloud that existed before planets and asteroids formed - and were zapped in a way that is still unknown. The gallery's images of primitive chondritic meteorites taken with a scanning electron microscope offer detailed views of chondrules. The museum also features backlit samples of a class of beautiful meteorites called pallasites, which contain silicate minerals mixed with metal. These specimens formed at the interface between the metallic core and the silicate mantle of an asteroid, Wasson said. We have no sample of the core of any of the planets or even a major moon, but many of the iron meteorites are samples of an asteroid's core, and they differ from one another, Wasson said. Wasson, a member of UCLA's faculty since 1964, has devoted his scientific career to studying meteorites. Meteorites are fragments that were, in part, the building blocks of the planets, he said. Many of these are the first rocks that formed anywhere in the solar system. They have information about the earliest history of the solar system that we cannot learn from the Earth itself. One of the gallery's exhibits explains how to correctly identify meteorites. Detailed explanations of the samples are provided in display cases and brochures. Alan Rubin, the associate curator of the gallery and a researcher in UCLA's Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, is an expert in identifying meteorites. He receives samples every few days from people who believe they have found meteorites. They almost never are real meteorites, he said, adding that less than 1 percent actually come from beyond the Earth. Some of these objects mistaken for meteorites - including ordinary rocks, petrified wood and metal slag - are on display in an exhibit aptly titled meteorwrongs. For many years, we've collected beautiful exhibit specimens of meteorites but kept
Re: [meteorite-list] Grand Opening of UCLA Meteorite Gallery
Hello Alan and All, Congratulations to UCLA for your new Meteorite Gallery!! Best Regards, Greg Greg Hupé The Hupé Collection gmh...@centurylink.net www.NaturesVault.net (Online Catalog Reference Site) www.LunarRock.com (Online Planetary Meteorite Site) NaturesVault (Facebook, Pinterest eBay) http://www.facebook.com/NaturesVault http://pinterest.com/NaturesVault IMCA 3163 Click here for my current eBay auctions: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZnaturesvault -Original Message- From: Alan Rubin Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 12:46 PM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Grand Opening of UCLA Meteorite Gallery I would like everyone to know that tomorrow afternoon, Friday Jan. 10, is the formal grand opening of the UCLA Meteorite Gallery, located on the third floor of the Geology Building on the UCLA Campus. The Museum will be open weekdays from 9:00 A.M to 4:00 P.M. and the occasional weekend afternoon. (Hours will be posted on our website: www.meteorites.ucla.edu ) The gallery is free to the public. I invite any meteorite enthusiasts visiting Southern California to come by sometime for a visit. The press release is appended below. Alan Space rocks hit UCLA: California's largest meteorite museum opens on campus (Note to editors and reporters: To attend the invitation-only grand opening of the UCLA Meteorite Gallery on Friday, Jan. 10, at 4 p.m., please contact Stuart Wolpert at swolp...@support.ucla.edu or 310-206-0511.) California's largest collection of meteorites, and the fifth-largest collection in the nation, is on display in the new UCLA Meteorite Gallery, which is free to the public. The museum, located in UCLA's Geology Building (Room 3697) is open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on some weekend afternoons; please visit the gallery's website, www.meteorites.ucla.edu, for details. A centerpiece of the museum is a 357-pound iron chunk of an asteroid that crashed into Arizona some 50,000 years ago, creating a mile-wide crater just east of Flagstaff. Visitors are allowed to touch the venerable object, which like most other meteorites and like the Earth itself is 4.5 billion years old, said John Wasson, the gallery's curator and a UCLA professor of geochemistry and chemistry. Meteorites are rocks ejected from asteroids, comets, planets or the moon that have traveled through interplanetary space and landed on the Earth's surface. The vast majority come from asteroids. Our goal is to make this gallery the world's best scientifically oriented meteorite museum, Wasson said. Our collection is by far the largest in California and is a gift to the people of Southern California. The opportunity to learn in scientific detail about meteorites has not been available in California before. The collection houses specimens of nearly 1,500 meteorites that illustrate the scientific processes that were active in the early solar system. About 100 of these - representing a wide variety of meteorite types - are currently on display. These include chondrites, which contain large numbers of tiny rocky spherules known as chondrules. The origin of chondrules remains very much a mystery, Wasson said. It appears they were created from clumps of dust in the solar nebula - the gas and dust cloud that existed before planets and asteroids formed - and were zapped in a way that is still unknown. The gallery's images of primitive chondritic meteorites taken with a scanning electron microscope offer detailed views of chondrules. The museum also features backlit samples of a class of beautiful meteorites called pallasites, which contain silicate minerals mixed with metal. These specimens formed at the interface between the metallic core and the silicate mantle of an asteroid, Wasson said. We have no sample of the core of any of the planets or even a major moon, but many of the iron meteorites are samples of an asteroid's core, and they differ from one another, Wasson said. Wasson, a member of UCLA's faculty since 1964, has devoted his scientific career to studying meteorites. Meteorites are fragments that were, in part, the building blocks of the planets, he said. Many of these are the first rocks that formed anywhere in the solar system. They have information about the earliest history of the solar system that we cannot learn from the Earth itself. One of the gallery's exhibits explains how to correctly identify meteorites. Detailed explanations of the samples are provided in display cases and brochures. Alan Rubin, the associate curator of the gallery and a researcher in UCLA's Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, is an expert in identifying meteorites. He receives samples every few days from people who believe they have found meteorites. They almost never are real meteorites, he said, adding that less than 1 percent actually come from beyond the Earth. Some of these objects
