MeteoritesSterling Pub., 1993 - 60 من الصفحات "A wonderful resource....Students will be drawn to read and investigate....The text is direct, interesting, and free of mind-numbing chemistry and physics formulas that so often deter YAs from further investigation....An exceptionally well-done summary."-- "SLJ . "Well-written and nicely illustrated....The technical quality of the book is very good...."-- "Science Bks & Films, a starred review . 60 pages (all in color), 8 1/4 x 7 7/8. |
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النتائج 1-3 من 12
الصفحة 8
... bright fireball . What happens next depends on the speed , mass and friability of the meteoroid . Very small objects burn up as meteors or shooting stars , but the tiniest may survive to become micrometeorites . Friable meteoroids break ...
... bright fireball . What happens next depends on the speed , mass and friability of the meteoroid . Very small objects burn up as meteors or shooting stars , but the tiniest may survive to become micrometeorites . Friable meteoroids break ...
الصفحة 12
... bright with a magnitude estimated ... at greater than -16 . It was too bright to look at directly and " turned night into day . " Color : Violet , blue , and white . Red sparks and a red halo were observed . Train : Lasted about 90 ...
... bright with a magnitude estimated ... at greater than -16 . It was too bright to look at directly and " turned night into day . " Color : Violet , blue , and white . Red sparks and a red halo were observed . Train : Lasted about 90 ...
الصفحة 14
... bright fireball from the first of the three was photographed by chance by cameras set up for meteor ( shooting star ) photography . The Pribram fireball of 1959 was so bright that the plates were almost burned out , but they were ...
... bright fireball from the first of the three was photographed by chance by cameras set up for meteor ( shooting star ) photography . The Pribram fireball of 1959 was so bright that the plates were almost burned out , but they were ...
المحتوى
Introduction | 1 |
How do meteorites get here? | 8 |
Where do meteorites come from? | 14 |
حقوق النشر | |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
anorthosite Antarctica Apollo astroblemes atmospheric flight basaltic basaltic achondrites basaltic rock blue ice bombardment bright fireball calcium carbonaceous chondrite caused chemical elements chondrites contain chondrules cometary composed cooled core Cosmic spherules crater crystals dark decay feldspar fell formation age fragments fusion crust gravity group IIAB Halley's Comet highlands howardites igneous rocks inches indicates interplanetary dust interstellar cloud iridium iron meteorites iron-nickel metal land on Earth liquid lunar magnesium mare Mars melting mesosiderites Meteor meteorite falls meteorite impact meteorite landed meteorite shower meteoroid micrometeorites million years ago mineral grains molten Moon nebula objects observed occurred olivine orbit palladium Pallasites parent asteroid particles percent nickel planetary planets formed plutonium produced pyroxene radioactive aluminum samples silicate SNC meteorites Solar System solar wind solidified sonic booms space speed stars stone stony material stony meteorite stony minerals Stony-iron meteorite sulfide Sun and planets supernova surface temperature Widmanstätten pattern