Beautifully illustrated with over 140 full colour images, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Meteorites provides a thorough guide to these fascinating extraterrestrial rocks.
Meteorites are our only contact with materials from beyond the Earth-Moon system. Using well known petrologic techniques, this book reveals in vivid colour their extraordinary external and internal structures. Looking deeper still, right to the atomic level, they begin to tell us of the environment within the solar nebula that existed before the planets accreted. In recent years, meteorites have caught the imagination of scientist and collector alike. An army of people are now actively searching for them in the hot and cold deserts of Earth.
This book is a valuable guide to assist the searchers in the field to recognize the many classes of meteorites. It is further a reference source for students, teachers and scientists who wish to probe deeper these amazing rocks from space.
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- 1. Cosmic dust - interplanetary dust particles
- 2. The fall of meteorites
- 3. External morphology of meteorites
- 4. Classification of meteorites: a historical viewpoint
- 5. Primitive meteorites: the chondrites
- 6. Chondrites: a closer look
- 7. Primitive meteorites: the carbonaceous chondrites
- 8. Differentiated meteorites: the achondrites
- 9. Differentiated meteorites: irons and stony-irons
- 10. Meteorites and the early solar system
- 11. Asteroid parent bodies
- 12. Terrestrial impact craters
- Appendices.
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"Twelve packed chapters crammed with stunning illustrations present the origin, structure and classification of meteoric material ... This is an encyclopedia for budding and accomplished enthusiasts who wish for an authoritative reference that includes the latest research in a steadily burgeoning subject."
(Sky & Telescope)
Cambridge University Press, 2002, 374 S.
56,30 Euro
Hardcover, w. 67 line diagrams 41 half-tones 174 colour plates 22 tables
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