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 14
الصفحة 7
... Meteoroid pulling away Forwards Sun Noon Earth M Backwards ↑ 6 am 6 pm I I Midnight Meteoroid catching up 8 Sketch of the paths of meteoroids relative to the Earth . CE is the ecliptic , the plane in which the Earth ( with center C ) ...
... Meteoroid pulling away Forwards Sun Noon Earth M Backwards ↑ 6 am 6 pm I I Midnight Meteoroid catching up 8 Sketch of the paths of meteoroids relative to the Earth . CE is the ecliptic , the plane in which the Earth ( with center C ) ...
الصفحة 8
... meteoroid . Very small objects burn up as meteors or shooting stars , but the tiniest may survive to become micrometeorites . Friable meteoroids break up and produce multiple trails as they are destroyed when they are still 50 or 55 ...
... meteoroid . Very small objects burn up as meteors or shooting stars , but the tiniest may survive to become micrometeorites . Friable meteoroids break up and produce multiple trails as they are destroyed when they are still 50 or 55 ...
الصفحة 59
... meteoroid was exposed to radiation in space , or a rock was exposed on the surface of a body . Cosmic spherule Droplet from space , usually smaller than 0.04 of an inch . Diogenite Achondrite composed of pyroxene . Escape velocity ...
... meteoroid was exposed to radiation in space , or a rock was exposed on the surface of a body . Cosmic spherule Droplet from space , usually smaller than 0.04 of an inch . Diogenite Achondrite composed of pyroxene . Escape velocity ...
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