Outreach

The Field Museum does not provide an ID request service anymore. However, we invite you to visit the Field Museum during a future ID day (TBD, this day is usually in September) when these become available again, where you can bring in one specimen for us to look at. 

New: Don't use a magnet as this destroys much of the preserved natural magnetism in meteorites. This would compromise the use for science.

Sites of interest for meteorite ID information are:

• University of Nevada Las Vegas:
  https://geoscience.unlv.edu/what-to-do-if-you-think-that-youve-found-a-meteorite/

• Arizona State University:
  http://meteorites.asu.edu/meteorite-facts/have-a-meteorite

• Washington University: https://sites.wustl.edu/meteoritesite/

• The University of Pittsburg https://www.geology.pitt.edu/meteorite-identification

• University of Minnesota: https://cse.umn.edu/esci/rock-mineral-fossil-and-meteorite-id