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 32
... Thin - section of the Stannern basaltic meteorite , which fell in Czechoslovakia in 1808 , viewed under the microscope in polarized light ( width of field three - sixteenths of an inch ) . The white mineral grains striped with black are ...
... Thin - section of the Stannern basaltic meteorite , which fell in Czechoslovakia in 1808 , viewed under the microscope in polarized light ( width of field three - sixteenths of an inch ) . The white mineral grains striped with black are ...
الصفحة 38
... 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 58
... 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 |
حقوق النشر | |
4 من الأقسام الأخرى غير ظاهرة
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
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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