Beschreibung:
Imagine the unique experience of being the very first person to hold a newly-found meteorite in your hand - a rock from space, older than Earth!
"It is said that astronomy is one of the few remaining fields in which amateurs can make a real contribution to science, and nowhere is this more true than in the field of meteors and meteorites.
Ancient Fragments of the Solar System.- Interplanetary Dust and Meteors.- Meteorites: Fragments of Asteroids.- Meteoroids to Meteorites: Lessons in Survival.- The Family of Meteorites.- The Chondrites.- Primitive and Differentiated Meteorites: Asteroidal Achondrites.- Differentiated Meteorites: Planetary and Lunar Achondrites.- Differentiated Meteorites: The Irons.- Differentiated Meteorites: Stony-Irons.- A Gallery of Meteorwrongs.- Collecting and Analyzing Meteorites.- In the Field.- From Hand Lens to Microscope.