Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Tim McCoy

Curator of Meteorites
Department / Division
Education
  • B.S., Eastern Illinois University
  • Ph.D., University of Hawaii, Manoa
  • M.S., University of New Mexico
Research Interests

Meteorites; igneous evolution of small bodies in the early solar system; martian volcanological history derived from meteorites.

Publications
Journal Article
Dataset
Book Chapter
  • Hauck, S. A., II, Grott, M., Byrne, P. K., Denevi, B. W., Stanley, S., and McCoy, Timothy J. 2018. "Mercury’s Global Evolution." In Mercury: The View after Messenger. Solomon, Sean C., Nittler, Larry R., and Anderson, Brian J., editors. 516–543. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
  • McCoy, Timothy J., Peplowski, P. N., McCubbin, F. M., and Weider, S. Z. 2018. "The Geochemical and Mineralogical Diversity of Mercury." In Mercury: The View after Messenger. Solomon, Sean C., Nittler, Larry R., and Anderson, Brian J., editors. 176–190. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
  • Nuth, Joseph A., McCoy, Timothy J., Johnson, Natasha, and Abreu, Neyda M. 2018. "Exploring the possible continuum between comets and asteroids." In Primitive Meteorites and Asteroids: Physical, Chemical, and Spectroscopic Observations Paving the Way to Exploration. 409–438. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-813325-5.00007-0.
  • Herd, Christopher D. K., Moser, Desmond E., Tait, Kimberly, Darling, James R., Shaulis, Barry J., and McCoy, Timothy J. 2017. "Crystallization of baddeleyite in basaltic rocks from Mars, and comparisons with the Earth, Moon, and Vesta." In Microsctructural Geochronology: Planetary records down to atom scale. Moser, D. E., Corfu, F., Darling, J. R., Reddy, S. M., and Tait, K., editors. 137. John Wiley and Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119227250.ch6.
  • McCoy, Timothy J. and Bullock, Emma S. 2017. "Differentiation under highly reducing conditions: New insights from enstatite meteorites and Mercury." In Planetesimals: Early differentiation and consequences for planets. Elkins-Tanton, L. T. and Weiss, B. P., editors.
  • McCoy, Timothy J. 2015. "Meteorite misfits: Fuzzy clues to Solar System processes." In 35 Seasons of U.S. Antarctic Meteorites: A Pictorial Guide to the Collection. Righter, K., Corrigan, Catherine M., McCoy, Timothy J., and Harvey, R. P., editors. 145–152. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118798478.ch8.
  • Mittlefehldt, D. W. and McCoy, Timothy J. 2015. "Achondrite and irons: Products of magmatism on strongly heated asteroids." In 35 Seasons of U.S. Antarctic Meteorites: A Pictorial Guide to the Collection. Righter, K., Corrigan, Catherine M., McCoy, Timothy J., and Harvey, R. P., editors. 79–100. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118798478.ch5.
  • Lentz, R. C. F., McCoy, Timothy J., Collins, L. E., Corrigan, Catherine M., Benedix, Gretchen K., Taylor, G. J., and Harvey, R. P. 2011. "Theo's Flow, Ontario, Candada: a terrestrial analog for the Martian nakhlite meteorites." In Analogs for Planetary Exploration. Garry, W. Brent and Bleacher, Jacob E., editors. 263–277. Geological Society of America. In Geological Society of America Special Paper.
  • McCoy, Timothy J., Welzenbach, Linda C., and Corrigan, Catherine M. 2009. "Antarctic Meteorites: Exploring the Solar System from the Ice." In Smithsonian at the Poles: Contributions to International Polar Year Science. Krupnik, Igor, Lang, Michael A., and Miller, Scott E., editors. 387–394. In IPY. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.097884601X.31.
  • Burbine T.H., Rivkin, A. S., Noble, S. K., Mothe-Diniz, T., Bottke, W. F., McCoy, Timothy J., Dyar, M. D., and Thomas, C. A. 2008. "Oxygen and asteroids." In Oxygen in the Solar System. MacPherson, Glenn J., editor. 273–343. Chantilly, VA: Reviewes in Mineralogy and Geochemistry. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501508509-012.
  • Clarke, Roy S., Jr., Plotkin, Howard, and McCoy, Timothy J. 2006. "Meteorites and the Smithsonian Institution." In The History of Meteoritics and Key Meteorite Collections: Fireballs, Falls and Finds. McCall, G. J. H., Bowden, A. J., and Howarth, R. J., editors. 237–265. Geological Society.
  • McCoy, Timothy J., Mittlefehldt, D. W., and Wilson, L. 2006. "Asteroid Differentiation." In Meteorites and the Early Solar System II. Lauretta, Dante S. and Sween, H. Y., Jr., editors. 733–745. Univ. of Arizona Press.
  • Weisberg, M. K., McCoy, Timothy J., and Krot, A. N. 2006. "Systematics and evaluation of meteorite classification." In Meteorites and the Early Solar System II. Lauretta, Dante S. and Sween, H. Y., Jr., editors. 19–52. Univ. of Arizona Press.
  • Trombka, Jacob I., Starr, Richard D., Groves, Joel, Akkurt, Hatice, Evans, Larry G., McCoy, Timothy J., Parsons, Ann M., Schweitzer, Jeffrey, Amatucci, Edward, and Smith, Miles T. 2005. "A pulsed neutron gamma-ray system for Mars rover missions." In IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2005. 681–690. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO.2005.1559358.
  • Haack, H. and McCoy, Timothy J. 2003. "Iron and stony-iron meteorites." In Meteorites, Comets and Planets (ed. A. M. Davis) Vol. 1 Treatise on Geochemistry. Holland, H. D. and Turekian, K. K., editors. 325–345. Elsevier-Pergamon.
  • Burbine, Thomas H., McCoy, Timothy J., Meibom, Anders, Gladman, Brett, and Keil, Klaus. 2002. "Meteoritic parent bodies: Their number and identification." In Asteroids III. 653–667. University of Arizona Press.
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