Meteorites and their parent planets
Meteorites and Their Parent Planets provides an engrossing overview of a highly interdisciplinary field - the study of extraterrestrial materials. The second edition of this successful book has been thoroughly revised, and describes the nature of meteorites, where they come from, and how they get to Earth. Meteorites offer important insights into processes in stars and in interstellar regions, the birth of our solar system, the formation and evolution of planets and smaller bodies, and the orig…
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- Full title :Meteorites and their parent planets / Harry Y. McSween, Jr.
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Meteorites and Their Parent Planets provides an engrossing overview of a highly interdisciplinary field - the study of extraterrestrial materials. The second edition of this successful book has been thoroughly revised, and describes the nature of meteorites, where they come from, and how they get to Earth. Meteorites offer important insights into processes in stars and in interstellar regions, the birth of our solar system, the formation and evolution of planets and smaller bodies, and the origin of life. The first edition was immensely popular with meteorite collectors, scientists and science students in many fields, and amateur astronomers. In this second edition all of the illustrations have been updated and improved, many sections have been expanded and modified based on discoveries in the last decade, and a new final chapter on the importance of meteorites has been added.
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- Publication Date:1999.
- Edition:2nd ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1999.
The Physical Object
- Description:xii, 310 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0521583039, 9780521583039, 0521587514, 9780521587518
- oclc:ocm39210190
- LC Classification:QB755
- Dewey Decimal:523.5/1
Table of Contents
Preface -- Introduction to meteorites -- Chondrites -- Chondrite parent bodies -- Achondrites -- Achondrite parent bodies -- Iron and stony-iron meteorites -- Iron and stony-iron parent bodies -- A space odyssey -- The importance of meteorites: some examples -- Appendix of minerals -- Glossary -- Index.
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