About

First Name

Dustin

Last Name

Dickens

Nickname

Dustin

Email

dustin@topmeteorite.com

Country

United States

Membership Type & Number

Membership Type

Trusted Business

Member Number

G0008

Business Type

Meteorite Dealer

Background

Business Name

Top Meteorite | Laboratory for Meteorite Analysis and Classification

Business Description

Laboratory for Meteorite Analysis and Classification (LMAC)

LMAC was created to meet the rapidly growing needs of the meteorite community for an easy to access, professional analysis and classification service for suspected meteorites.

Our laboratory provides an easy to use online sample submission process for researchers, institutions, meteorite professionals, and finders of suspected meteorites.

Facilities: LMAC is equipped with an in-house sample prep lab with: Olympus BH Petrographic Optical Microscope, 25mm Mount Making Station, STX-202A Diamond Wire Saw, Fisher Scientific Isotemp Vacuum Autoclave, and Niton XLF X-ray Fluorescence Analyzer (XRF).

LMAC utilizes a JEOL JXA-8230 Electron Microprobe (EPMA) equipped with an LaB6 electron gun and 5 spectrometers, located at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Electron Microprobe Laboratory for non-metallic samples.

TOP METEORITE

Top Meteorite provides authentic certified Lunar, Martian, HED, Ungrouped, Iron, Pallasite, Carbonaceous Chondrites, and other rare and unique meteorite specimens to collectors, researchers and institutions.

My First Meteorite

NWA 8159 Augite Basalt Martian

Year Acquired

2013

Trade Shows Attended

Tucson Gem and Mineral Show

Denver Gem and Mineral Show

Spacefest

Ensisheim

Tokyo Gem and Mineral Show

Rocky Mountain Star Stare

…and others.

#   Book Title
Author
0

Meteorite Minerology

Author

Alan Rubin

Digital Presence

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