Meteorites


A Meteorite Collection mainly from the Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute (now Physical Sciences) at the Open University


We also have two virtual microscopes containing many meteorite samples

 
 
For information on “Rocks from Space” click herehttp://www.open.ac.uk/science/pssri/about-the-department/outreach/rocks-from-space.php

British Meteorites VM

Meteorite Classification

Click herehttp://www.virtualmicroscope.co.uk/projects/british-meteorites
General Classification../MeteoriteClass-1.html
Antarctic Classification../MeteoriteClass-2.html

Europlanet VM

Click herehttp://www.virtualmicroscope.co.uk/projects/europlanet

Information on

Lunar Meteorites

Lunar Meteorite Compendiumhttp://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/antmet/lmc/index.cfm

Information on

Martian Meteorites

Meteorites from Marshttp://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/antmet/mmc/index.cfm

Meteorite Blog

The Blog from the Final Frontierhttp://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/meteorite/