SIDEWALKS correspondent Toni Fox takes our viewers to the UCLA Meteorite Collection, the largest gallery on the West Coast.
Video Content: UCLA Meteorite Collection (2019)
SIDEWALKS correspondent Toni Fox takes a look at the UCLA Meteorite Collection.
The piece — directed and edited by Michael Holguin — features statements from Alan Rubin, the Researcher / Curator of Collection. Mr. Rubin received his has a Ph.D. in Geology from the Univ. of New Mexico. He is a retired and recalled adjunct professor and co-curator of the UCLA Meteorite Collection; he has been at UCLA since 1983. He has conducted meteorite research on a wide variety of samples, concentrating on the nature and origin of chondrules, shock effects in chondrites and the processes that heated and altered meteorite parent bodies.
About UCLA Meteorite Collection:
The UCLA Collection of Meteorites is the largest on the West Coast and contains over 2500 samples from about 1500 different meteorites. The gallery is the fifth largest collection of meteorites in the United States and the second largest housed at a university.
The collection includes the main masses of about 40 meteorites and the type specimens of more than 300 meteorites collected from hot deserts; 60 of these are iron meteorites. Eighty of these meteorite type specimens are from the state of California. These were collected by local citizens during the past few decades, mainly from the playas (dry lakes) scattered around the Mojave Desert.
The Meteorite Gallery, located in room 3697 of the Geology Building at UCLA, opened in January 2014. The Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 9AM to 4PM and on Sundays from 1 to 4PM.
Feature Credits:
Recorded: December 2019
Producer / Correspondent: Toni Fox
Director of photography / Editor: Michael Holguin
Camera: Josh Grice and Rachel Ko
Gaffer: Nathan Padilla
Grip: Anthony Lagasca
Special Thanks to: UCLA Meteorite Collection, Alan Rubin, UCLA