The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Meteorites

O. Richard Norton

352 pages, parution le 14/02/2002

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Résumé

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.

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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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	O. Richard Norton
Parution	14/02/2002
Nb. de pages	352
Format	22 x 28
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1572g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9780521621434
ISBN13	978-0-521-62143-4