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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... heating in the upper atmosphere can produce a bright fireball . What happens next depends on the speed , mass and ... heat and by the passage of the object giving the air an electric charge . All the heat is carried away from the ...
... heating in the upper atmosphere can produce a bright fireball . What happens next depends on the speed , mass and ... heat and by the passage of the object giving the air an electric charge . All the heat is carried away from the ...
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... heated from within and partially melted . This process still produces volcanoes on Earth today but ended 4,400 million years ago on the asteroids , 2,900 million years ago on the Moon and perhaps 1,000 million years ago on Mars . Heating ...
... heated from within and partially melted . This process still produces volcanoes on Earth today but ended 4,400 million years ago on the asteroids , 2,900 million years ago on the Moon and perhaps 1,000 million years ago on Mars . Heating ...
الصفحة 51
... heating in small bodies with low gravity would cause water ice to evaporate ; that is , the ice would become a gas without going through a liquid water stage . But it does seem possible that heating and loss of water from the surface of ...
... heating in small bodies with low gravity would cause water ice to evaporate ; that is , the ice would become a gas without going through a liquid water stage . But it does seem possible that heating and loss of water from the surface of ...
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 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