Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites
Imagine the unique experience of being the very first person to hold a newly-found meteorite in your hand – a rock from space, older than Earth! "Weekend meteorite hunting" with magnets and metal detectors is becoming ever more popular as a pastime, but of course you can’t just walk around...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Springer London,
2008.
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| Series: | Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series,
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- Ancient Fragments of the Solar System
- Interplanetary Dust and Meteors
- Meteorites: Fragments of Asteroids
- Meteoroids to Meteorites: Lessons in Survival
- The Family of Meteorites
- The Chondrites
- Primitive and Differentiated Meteorites: Asteroidal Achondrites
- Differentiated Meteorites: Planetary and Lunar Achondrites
- Differentiated Meteorites: The Irons
- Differentiated Meteorites: Stony-Irons
- A Gallery of Meteorwrongs
- Collecting and Analyzing Meteorites
- In the Field
- From Hand Lens to Microscope.
