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 26
... Thin section of basalt lava from the Isle of Skye , Scotland , viewed under the microscope with polarized light ( three- sixteenths of an inch across ) . It is composed mainly of two minerals , both of which are found in basaltic ...
... Thin section of basalt lava from the Isle of Skye , Scotland , viewed under the microscope with polarized light ( three- sixteenths of an inch across ) . It is composed mainly of two minerals , both of which are found in basaltic ...
الصفحة 32
... thin , black , glassy fusion crust that formed during passage through the atmosphere . 38b Thin - section of the Nakhla meteorite ( three - sixteenths of an inch across ) . This stony meteorite is composed mainly of interlocking ...
... thin , black , glassy fusion crust that formed during passage through the atmosphere . 38b Thin - section of the Nakhla meteorite ( three - sixteenths of an inch across ) . This stony meteorite is composed mainly of interlocking ...
الصفحة 48
... thin . If cooling is fast , the bands of nickel - poor metal have little time to form , and this also causes them to be thin . Conversely , an iron meteorite with only 7 percent nickel , if slowly cooled , will have a coarse structure ...
... thin . If cooling is fast , the bands of nickel - poor metal have little time to form , and this also causes them to be thin . Conversely , an iron meteorite with only 7 percent nickel , if slowly cooled , will have a coarse structure ...
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