mn90403 Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 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 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkerrj Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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