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The meteorite collection of the Civico Planetario and the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milan, Italy
Author(s) -
FOLCO Luigi,
PERI Fabio,
PEZZOTTA Federico
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
meteoritics and planetary science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.09
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1945-5100
pISSN - 1086-9379
DOI - 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2002.tb00908.x
Subject(s) - meteorite , chondrite , achondrite , astrobiology , geology , geochemistry , physics
— The historical meteorite collection of Milan's Civico Planetario and Museo di Storia Naturale is presented in this catalogue. Started in 1838, the collection contains to date (March 2002) 231 samples of 77 individual falls, representing 118.935 kg ( i.e. , the total weight is 118 kg and 935 g) of extraterrestrial material, including 5 carbonaceous chondrites, 38 ordinary chondrites, 3 achondrites, 7 stony‐iron meteorites and 24 iron meteorites.