History
The UCLA Collection of Meteorites is the largest on the West Coast and contains over 2500 samples from about 1500 different meteorites. It is the fifth largest collection of meteorites in the United States and the second largest housed at a university.
Specialties
The UCLA Meteorite Collection has been assembled by cosmochemist John Wasson and Alan Rubin and their colleagues at UCLA. There are more than 1500 meteorites in the collection. About 100 of these are exhibited in the meteorite gallery.