This popular guide to cosmic debris introduces the fascinating world of meteorites, asteroids, comets, and impact craters. With more than 50 new photographs and updated illustrations, new and expanded appendixes, and some fun cosmic humor, Rocks from Space, Second Edition, journeys into the last frontier for close-up looks at the latest astronomical discoveries.
Author(s): O. Richard Norton, Dorothy S. Norton
Publisher: Mountain Pr
Year: 1994
Language: English
Pages: 468
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
1 Shooting Stars, Meteor Showers, and Fireballs......Page 20
2 Rocks from Space? Impossible!......Page 46
3 Effects of a Falling Meteoroid......Page 56
4 Tracking Fallen Meteorites......Page 68
Color Plates......Page 82
5 Meteorite Showers......Page 90
6 Two Great Siberian Meteorite Falls......Page 110
7 America's Great Meteorite Crater......Page 132
8 Earth is a Cratered World......Page 152
9 How to Recognize a Meteorite......Page 178
10 Condrites-- The Common Stony Meteorites......Page 196
11 Achondrites-- The Crusts of Planets......Page 222
12 Iron Meteorites-- The Cores of Planets......Page 236
13 Stony-Iron Meteorites-- The Mantles of Planets......Page 256
14 The Great Meteorites-- Their Discovery and Recovery......Page 266
15 Harvey Harlow Nininger, Meteorite Hunter......Page 288
16 Robert A. Haag, the "Meteorite Man"......Page 310
17 Hunting for Meteorites......Page 328
18 Asteroids-- "Parents" of the Meteorites......Page 348
19 Searching for Meteorites' Lost "Parents"......Page 366
20 Whe Worlds Collide......Page 392
Epilogue......Page 428
Meteorite Verification Labs......Page 430
Commercial Meteorite Dealers......Page 432
Selected List of Suspected Impact Craters Worldwide......Page 434
Etching an Iron Meteorite......Page 438
Testing a Meteorite for Nickel......Page 442
Glossary......Page 444
References......Page 454
Index-- General......Page 460
Index-- Meteorites......Page 466
