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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... composition , meteorites are divided into stony , iron and stony - iron types . Stony meteorites , which , as their name suggests , are dominantly made of stony minerals , are further subdivided on the basis of their texture into ...
... composition , meteorites are divided into stony , iron and stony - iron types . Stony meteorites , which , as their name suggests , are dominantly made of stony minerals , are further subdivided on the basis of their texture into ...
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... composition , this tiny piece of rock formed from a melt on an asteroid . The rock is composed of olivine ( orange ) , pyroxene and plagioclase feldspar , ( barred white and black ) . Some of the aluminum was radioactive , and decayed ...
... composition , this tiny piece of rock formed from a melt on an asteroid . The rock is composed of olivine ( orange ) , pyroxene and plagioclase feldspar , ( barred white and black ) . Some of the aluminum was radioactive , and decayed ...
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... composition . Explosion crater Crater formed by high velocity impact . Fall Recovered meteorite whose fall was witnessed . Feldspar Group of silicate ( stony ) minerals with calcium , sodium or potassium , plus aluminum . Find Meteorite ...
... composition . Explosion crater Crater formed by high velocity impact . Fall Recovered meteorite whose fall was witnessed . Feldspar Group of silicate ( stony ) minerals with calcium , sodium or potassium , plus aluminum . Find Meteorite ...
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