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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الصفحة 21
... crystals of diamond and silicon. STONY METEORITES : CHONDRITES Almost 90 percent of the meteorites seen to fall are ... crystals of olivine ( gray to orange ) grew , but the remainder of the liquid cooled to a glass ( black ) . The ...
... crystals of diamond and silicon. STONY METEORITES : CHONDRITES Almost 90 percent of the meteorites seen to fall are ... crystals of olivine ( gray to orange ) grew , but the remainder of the liquid cooled to a glass ( black ) . The ...
الصفحة 25
... crystals too small to be seen by the naked eye . If the basalt solidifies within the Earth the crystals are larger because cooling is slower and they have time to grow . The crystal sizes in the achondrites suggest that they cooled ...
... crystals too small to be seen by the naked eye . If the basalt solidifies within the Earth the crystals are larger because cooling is slower and they have time to grow . The crystal sizes in the achondrites suggest that they cooled ...
الصفحة 43
... crystal it damages the crystalline structure along a cylindrical trail . When the crystal is etched , the trail corrodes more readily than the undamaged crystal and a fission - track is revealed . The scale bar is 10 micrometers , or ...
... crystal it damages the crystalline structure along a cylindrical trail . When the crystal is etched , the trail corrodes more readily than the undamaged crystal and a fission - track is revealed . The scale bar is 10 micrometers , or ...
المحتوى
Introduction | 1 |
How do meteorites get here? | 8 |
Where do meteorites come from? | 14 |
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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 IAB Halley's Comet highlands howardites igneous rocks IIAB 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