In Memoriam: John Wasson, 86, Cosmochemist And Co-creator Of The Ucla Meteorite Collection

[mn90403]

 

John Wasson has passed.  I attended his lectures several times at UCLA.  The lectures will continue including this Sunday on Zoom.

 

https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/in-memoriam-john-wasson-cosmochemist-and-co-creator-the-ucla-meteorite-collection

https://meteoritical.org/news

[walkerrj]

Nice guy, John was instrumental in authenticating and naming "Cotopaxi", an Iron Meteorite that my wife and I found detecting in Colorado in 2000.  In appreciation we donated a small slice of Cotopaxi to the UCLA collection and the rest to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.  Also thru his efforts, Cotopaxi is now listed in Meteoritical Bulletin #89, dated 2005.  It's very interesting to read the scientific makeup of all the elements it's made of.