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
... molten droplets . To melt such materials requires a temperature of about 2,500 ° F and this shows that there must have been at least one large scale heating event in the early Solar System . Although the chondrules within the chondrite ...
... molten droplets . To melt such materials requires a temperature of about 2,500 ° F and this shows that there must have been at least one large scale heating event in the early Solar System . Although the chondrules within the chondrite ...
الصفحة 41
... molten and formed in the cores of asteroids . The remainder were not completely melted and formed in metallic pods associated with stony material . The iron meteorites are classified on a chemical basis . The abundances of nickel and ...
... molten and formed in the cores of asteroids . The remainder were not completely melted and formed in metallic pods associated with stony material . The iron meteorites are classified on a chemical basis . The abundances of nickel and ...
الصفحة 47
... molten core . We think that cooling , contraction and cracking in the overlying olivine - rich stony mantle led to the injection of molten metal upwards along the cracks . 44 44 Polished and acid - etched slice of the Thiel Mountains ...
... molten core . We think that cooling , contraction and cracking in the overlying olivine - rich stony mantle led to the injection of molten metal upwards along the cracks . 44 44 Polished and acid - etched slice of the Thiel Mountains ...
المحتوى
Introduction | 1 |
How do meteorites get here? | 8 |
Where do meteorites come from? | 14 |
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aluminum amounts Antarctica appear asteroids atmosphere basaltic become blue body bright caused chemical chondrite chondrules cloud cometary comets composed composition contain cooled core cosmic cosmic ray crater crust crystals dark decay determine diameter dust Earth elements event evidence fall fell field fireball formation formed fragments grains gravity gray half-life heating highlands impact inches indicates interior iron meteorites iron-nickel metal known land on Earth less light liquid lunar magnesium Mars material measurable melting Meteor meteoroid micrometeorites miles million years ago minerals molten Moon natural nickel objects observed occurred olivine orbit origin parent particles percent pieces planetary planets Polished present probably produced radioactive rare regions rocks samples seen shower shows single Solar System space speed stars stone stony meteorite structure surface temperature thin thought tiny tons types volcanic weight wind