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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... stone , usually with a small amount of iron - nickel metal . Others are almost entirely composed of iron - nickel metal , so are very different from familiar Earth rocks . We normally think of a meteorite as a single object weighing ...
... stone , usually with a small amount of iron - nickel metal . Others are almost entirely composed of iron - nickel metal , so are very different from familiar Earth rocks . We normally think of a meteorite as a single object weighing ...
الصفحة 10
... stone fell within 20 yards of workmen in a field . They saw " no unusual light , but heard the aerolite ( stony meteorite ) rush through the air and felt it shake the ground by striking it with great violence . " It drove " straw before ...
... stone fell within 20 yards of workmen in a field . They saw " no unusual light , but heard the aerolite ( stony meteorite ) rush through the air and felt it shake the ground by striking it with great violence . " It drove " straw before ...
الصفحة 12
... stones totalling 4.5 tons fell . Fortunately , no one was injured . The largest stone weighed two tons and made an ... stone is part of a meteorite shower that fell at Jilin , China , on March 8 , 1976 . WESTERN AUSTRALIA , SEPTEMBER ...
... stones totalling 4.5 tons fell . Fortunately , no one was injured . The largest stone weighed two tons and made an ... stone is part of a meteorite shower that fell at Jilin , China , on March 8 , 1976 . WESTERN AUSTRALIA , SEPTEMBER ...
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