The History of Meteoritics and Key Meteorite Collections: Fireballs, Falls and FindsGerald Joseph Home McCall, A. J. Bowden, Richard John Howarth Geological Society of London, 2006 - 513 من الصفحات This Special Publication has 24 papers with an international authorship, and is prefaced by an introductory overview which presents highlights in the field. The first section covers the acceptance by science of the reality of the falls of rock and metal from the sky, an account that takes the reader from BCE (before common era) to the nineteenth century. The second section details some of the world's most important collections in museums - their origins and development. The Smithsonian chapter also covers the astonishingly numerous finds in the cold desert of Antarctica by American search parties. There are also contributions covering the finds by Japanese parties in the Yamato mountains and the equally remarkable discoveries in the hot deserts of Australia, North Africa, Oman and the USA. The other seven chapters take the reader through the revolution in scientific research on meteoritics in the later part of the twentieth century, including terrestrial impact cratering and extraordinary showers of glass from the sky; tektites, now known to be Earth-impact-sourced. Finally, the short epilogue looks to the future. |
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Early beginnings | 15 |
exploring | 73 |
The end of classical meteorology c 1800 | 91 |
Key meteoritic collections | 123 |
RUSSELL S GRADY M M A history of the meteorite collection at the | 153 |
CONSOLMAGNO G J A brief history of the Vatican meteorite collection | 205 |
A NAZAROV M A History of the meteorite collection of | 219 |
CLARKE R S JR PLOTKIN H McCoy T J Meteorites and the Smithsonian | 237 |
BEVAN A W R The Western Australian Museum meteorite collection | 305 |
a history | 325 |
Contemporary meteoritics | 345 |
DE LAETER J R The history of meteorite age determinations | 363 |
BOWDEN A J Meteorite provenance and the asteroid connection | 379 |
M The history of research on meteorites from Mars | 405 |
Hooke Gilbert Barringer and beyond | 443 |
MCCALL G J H The history of tektites | 471 |
S History of the American Museum of Natural History | 267 |
KOJIMA H The history of Japanese Antarctic meteorites | 291 |
MCCALL G J H BOWDEN A J WOOD J A MARVIN U B Epilogue | 495 |
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