[meteorite-list] Best institutional tektite collections?
From: Aubrey Whymark <tektites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:46:48 +0800 Message-ID: <c4604300904182046sc2033f2tff416460a7ef237d_at_mail.gmail.com> Hi List I started some museum pages on my website a while back, it would be great to add to these museums if anyone has photos of tektite collections. www.tektites.co.uk/museums The British Museum of Natural History currently has a very poor display, bar a few nice Ivory Coast tektites. I believe this may improve in the future. The French Natural History Museum sadly has no tektites on display, despite the work by Lacroix. I believe the Czech Natural History Museum has a good display, but I have no more information. In Australia I guess there are a number of excellent displays - Certainly a good display is found in the Western Australian Museum. In the US I have little information - if you have some info and photos of tektite displays you can email me at aubrey at tektites.co.uk for inclusion in my webpage. I have learnt that Virgil Barnes donated his collection to the Texas Memorial Museum In the Philippines I believe there are no displays. There used to be one at the Planetarium, but that was under renovation, and I believe still is. No idea if tektites will be back on display there when it opens again. Regards, Aubrey www.tektites.co.uk On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Phil Morgan <roxfromspace at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > I was wondering where some of the better tektite collections are > located and how much is on display. ?I'm mostly interested in the US > but feel free to include others. ?Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > Phil > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > Received on Sat 18 Apr 2009 11:46:48 PM PDT |
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