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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 |
NINETEENTHCENTURY FOUNDATIONS | 104 |
Olivine Plagioclase Pyroxene | 114 |
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 |
CONTEMPORARY METEORITE RESEARCH | 281 |
The Origins of Meteorites | 301 |
NickelIron Troilite Schreibersite | 122 |
Classifications | 138 |
LATE NINETEENTHCENTURY METEORITE THEORIES 145 LATE NINETEENTHCENTURY METEORITE THEORIES | 148 |
Origins from the Sun Nebulae or Comets | 158 |
Life in Meteorites and on Other Planets | 166 |
CURATORS AND COLLECTORS | 174 |
The Major European Collections in the Late Nineteenth Century | 184 |
Major U S Collections in the Late Nineteenth and Early | 198 |
Matters of Life and Death | 312 |
NOTES | 325 |
REFERENCES | 365 |
INDEXES | 421 |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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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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