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Inhoudsopgave
DISBELIEF | 5 |
Dilemmas about Fireballs and Genuine Meteorites | 17 |
Meteorite Falls and Scientific Attitudes | 30 |
ACCEPTANCE | 37 |
Early NineteenthCentury Theories of Meteorite Origin | 58 |
MATHEMATICAL ASTRONOMY AND STATISTICS | 70 |
A Digression on the Fall of Peculiar Matter | 80 |
The Start of Statistical Analysis | 88 |
The Major European Collections in the Late Nineteenth Century | 184 |
Major U S Collections in the Late Nineteenth and Early | 198 |
Prices and Exchange Values | 209 |
Beliefs about Meteors | 215 |
Uses of Meteorites | 229 |
NEW DIRECTIONS 19001950 | 237 |
The Scientific Use of Meteorites | 253 |
New Problems | 264 |
The Phenomena of Fall | 94 |
NINETEENTHCENTURY FOUNDATIONS | 104 |
Olivine Plagioclase Pyroxene | 114 |
NickelIron Troilite Schreibersite | 122 |
Classifications | 138 |
LATE NINETEENTHCENTURY METEORITE THEORIES | 145 |
Planetary or Asteroidal Origin | 152 |
CURATORS AND COLLECTORS | 174 |
CONTEMPORARY METEORITE RESEARCH | 281 |
The Origins of Meteorites | 301 |
Matters of Life and Death | 312 |
NOTES | 325 |
REFERENCES | 365 |
INDEXES | 421 |
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Overige edities - Alles weergeven
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
analysis appeared asteroids astronomers atmosphere atomic became believed Berzelius Biot BMNH Bournon Brezina British Museum Buchwald calculated carbonaceous carbonaceous chondrites chemical chemists Chladni chondrites chondrules comets composition contained cosmic craters crystals Daubree decades determine early Earth elements enstatite eucrites evidence fell fireballs Fletcher formed fragments Haidinger heat Heuland Howard howardites hypothesis Ibid impact investigation iron meteorites kamacite Krasnojarsk later lunar Maskelyne mass matter Merrill metallic meteorite falls meteoritic iron meteoritic stones meteors mineral mineralogy Moon Natural History nebula nickel nickel-iron nineteenth century observed occurred Olbers olivine Olmsted orbit Orgueil meteorite origin of meteorites oxide oxygen Pallas iron pallasite parent bodies particles percent pieces plagioclase planet plessite postulated present produced published pyroxene Reichenbach reported schreibersite scientific scientists Shepard shooting stars shower silicate Smith Smithsonian specimens stony irons studies sulfide sulfur surface taenite tektites terrestrial theory thought thunderstones troilite Tschermak Urey velocity Vienna volcanic Widmanstatten structure wrote
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Cosmic Debris: Meteorites in History |
| Auteur | John G. Burke |
| Editie | geïllustreerd, herdruk |
| Uitgever | University of California Press, 1991 |
| ISBN | 0520073967, 9780520073968 |
| Lengte | 455 pagina's |
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