In celebration of National Poetry Month, we invite all enthusiasts to submit up to 3 poems about meteorites, asteroids, or impacts. We welcome all poetic forms! . Please submit all poems to jahook@ucla.edu by May 1st. Winning poems will be posted in the UCLA Meteorite Gallery!

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Check out our UCLA Meteorite Gallery Lecture Series: December 2020 The Origin of Chondrules by Dr. Alan Rubin!. To join our virtual Zoom lecture series- click the link in our bio. via @YouTube.

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Please join us this Sunday (10/18) at 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time for Dr. Donald Brownlee's presentation about what comet samples from the Stardust mission have told us about the origin of the solar system. Zoom Registration in bio. Free and open to the public.

Please join us this Sunday (9/20) at 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time for Dr. Andy Davis' presentation about his study of star composition using star dust grains found in meteorites. Zoom Registration in bio. Free and open to the public.

Please join us tomorrow at 2:30 pm Pacific Time for a lecture from Dr. Meenakshi Wadhwa from Arizona State University as she discusses tales from the meteorite vault. Link in bio. 🌎🌘☄️ @ UCLA EPSS

Join us this July 12th to welcome Dr. Cristina Thomas @cathomas09 from Northern Arizona University. Dr. Thomas leads the Double Asteroid Redirection Test team which is NASA’s first planetary defense mission to test asteroid deflection by kinetic impactor. Registration in bio.

Please join us this Sunday, July 12th at 2:30 p.m. to welcome Dr. Cristina Thomas from Northern Arizona University for a virtual Zoom lecture. Dr. Thomas leads the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) team which…

Millbillillie is the largest eucrite fall; about 330 kg have been.recovered. About 868 g of material are now part of the UCLA Meteorite.Collection.

Northwest Africa 6950 is a lunar meteorite (gabbro) found near the.border between Mali and Algeria in June 2011, The rock is closely.related to basalt, but has coarser grains and a cumulate igneous texture. Several…

Los Angeles is a Martian basalt (shergottite) found by Bob Verish in.the Mojave Desert. The meteorite was analyzed and classified by UCLA scientists. Today a 30 g specimen is part of the UCLA.Meteorite Collection.…

A single mass of 1.8 kg was found by Mr. Melvin English while quail hunting in the foothills of the Tehachapi Mountains, California. The classification of the Chuckwalla iron meteorite was done by UCLA.scientists.…

The Campo del Cielo iron meteorite fell 4200 - 4700 years ago, about 1000 km northwest of Buenos Aires in Argentina. It was discovered in 1576 by members of the Spanish military, but the site was already well known…

Cerro del Inca is a 20.6 kg iron meteorite found by soldiers in the.Atacama Desert in Chile in 1997. The meteorite was characterized by UCLA scientists and a 120 g specimen is now part of the UCLA Meteorite…

Join us on Sunday for our first Zoom Gallery Lecture!. Title: “Spherules in Sediment Deposits from Asteroid Impact Ejecta”.Lecturer: Dr. Frank Kyte, UCLA Cosmochemist. When: 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, 14 June…

Emery was discovered in South Dakota on a stone pile by a 12-year-old boy in 1962. The stone is a mesosiderite, consisting of substantial portions of both metallic iron-nickel and silicate (mainly basalt and…

Despite its name, Libyan Desert Glass (LDG) is from the Great Sand Sea in the Western Desert of Egypt. It is an impact-melted glass, related to tektites, but was formed by melting quartz-rich sand. This photo and…

Most of the tektites that one sees in museums or rock shops formed by spinning while in flight through the atmosphere. This is especially obvious for those with dumbbell shapes (the three on the lower right in this…

Tektites are terrestrial sediments that have been melted into glassy objects by the heat generated by high-velocity impacts. They solidified too quickly to permit the growth of crystalline phases (such as quartz).…