Meteorite research is fundamental to our understanding of the origin and early history of the Solar System. This book considers the mechanism and timing of core formation and basaltic volcanism on asteroids, and the effects of heating water-rich bodies. Results from meteorite research are placed in a galactic setting, and a theory is proposed for the origin of the planets of our Solar System. This advanced yet succinct introduction classifies meteorites in the context of their ages and origin.
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"Hutchison's work is certainly the best up-to-date scholarly work available on meteorites. The seventeen-page "Introduction" is an excellent primer to meteorites in general and would more than satisfy members of the public curious about rocks from space." Planetarian, Richard Dreiser and Paul J Krupinski
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Meteorite research is fundamental to our understanding of the origin and early history of the Solar System. This book considers the mechanism and timing of core formation and basaltic volcanism on asteroids, and the effects of heating water-rich bodies. Results from meteorite research are placed in a galactic setting, and a theory is proposed for the origin of the planets of our Solar System. This advanced yet succinct introduction provides a classification of meteorites, and discusses their ages and origin.
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Of the approximately 40 000 tonnes of extraterrestrial material that the Earth captures annually, 1% or less is in pieces big enough for recovery by witnesses of their fall. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
asteroidal distances, ferromagnesian chondrules, chondrite groups, cumulate eucrites, interchondrule matrix, aqueous metamorphism, lithophile element contents, protosolar matter, ungrouped irons, mild thermal metamorphism, planetary noble gases, ungrouped meteorites, lherzolitic shergottites, chondrite matrices, kamacite lamellae, primitive achondrites, chondrite parent bodies, chondritic inclusions, differentiated achondrites, petrologic type, petrologic subtype, equilibrated ordinary chondrites, kamacite spindles, oxygen isotopic properties, mineral clasts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eagle Station, Meteoritics Planet, Elsevier Science, Allan Hills, University of Arizona Press, Lewis Cliff, Mineralogical Society of America, Ste Marguerite, Dar al Gani, Nuevo Laredo, Planetary Materials, Cosmochimica Acta, Northwest Africa, Tagish Lake, Tauri Sun, Cambridge University Press, Cape York, Elephant Moraine, Norton County, Carlisle Lakes, Cold Bokkeveld, The Arizona Board of Regents, Johnson Space Center, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Planetary Science Letters New!
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Of the approximately 40 000 tonnes of extraterrestrial material that the Earth captures annually, 1% or less is in pieces big enough for recovery by witnesses of their fall. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
asteroidal distances, ferromagnesian chondrules, chondrite groups, cumulate eucrites, interchondrule matrix, aqueous metamorphism, lithophile element contents, protosolar matter, ungrouped irons, mild thermal metamorphism, planetary noble gases, ungrouped meteorites, lherzolitic shergottites, chondrite matrices, kamacite lamellae, primitive achondrites, chondrite parent bodies, chondritic inclusions, differentiated achondrites, petrologic type, petrologic subtype, equilibrated ordinary chondrites, kamacite spindles, oxygen isotopic properties, mineral clasts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eagle Station, Meteoritics Planet, Elsevier Science, Allan Hills, University of Arizona Press, Lewis Cliff, Mineralogical Society of America, Ste Marguerite, Dar al Gani, Nuevo Laredo, Planetary Materials, Cosmochimica Acta, Northwest Africa, Tagish Lake, Tauri Sun, Cambridge University Press, Cape York, Elephant Moraine, Norton County, Carlisle Lakes, Cold Bokkeveld, The Arizona Board of Regents, Johnson Space Center, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Planetary Science Letters New!
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- The Solar System (3 Vol Set) (Magill's Choice) by Roger Smith on 33 pages
- Meteorites and the Early Solar System by John F. Kerridge on 25 pages
- The Solar System by Barrie William Jones on 12 pages
- Chondrules and the Protoplanetary Disk by R. H. Hewins on 8 pages
- Catalogue of Meteorites by Monica M. Grady in Front Matter, page 16, and page 17
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- Disturbing the Solar System: Impacts, Close Encounters, and Coming Attractions by Alan E. Rubin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Surface of Mars (Cambridge Planetary Science) by Michael H. Carr in Front Matter
- House of Leaves: A Novel by Mark Z. Danielewski on page 375
- Falling Stars: A Guide to Meteors and Meteorites (Astronomy) by Michael D. Reynolds in Back Matter
- A Compendium of Geochemistry by Yuan-Hui Li in Back Matter
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