Biographical Archive

Glenn Huss
TBD-1991
Colorado - Arizona, USA

Notice: the following text is based on Nininger's autobiography Find a Falling Star [1972], except where referenced otherwise.

Glenn Huss, son-in-law of meteoriticist and collector Harvey H. Nininger, was involved in the American Meteorite Laboratory. With his wife Margaret (1925-2007), they operated the American Meteorite Museum, especially in the late 1950s, when the Nininger Collection was in the process of being sold. Once the museum closed in 1960, they went back to Denver and carried on the name and work of the American Meteorite Laboratory until the mid-1980s.

Meteorites from the AML (under the Huss era) can be identified by a code composed of the letter H (for Huss) followed by two numbers separated by a dot, the first number being the location index and the second one the specimen number. The correspondance between Huss numbers and meteorite locations is available in the Huss Collection catalogue [Huss, 1976]. In parallel, Glenn Huss built a second collection with the inventory number system changed to (2)Hxxx.xxx. Contrary to the first collection, which was part of the AML, the second one was the personal collection of Glenn and Margaret Huss, begun in 1958 [Huss, 1986]. The Second Huss Collection was sold in the mid-1980s to the Natural History Museum of Vienna and to the Max Planck Institute [ref. needed].

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