INDEX
[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] X [Y] [Z]
A achondrites, [126], [163], [178] Adelie Land stone, [78] Adrar iron, [38], [40] aerolites, [178], [179] see also, [stones, meteoritic] age of meteorites and/or craters, [50], [52] Aggie Creek iron, [76] Ahnighito iron, [36], [128] Algoma meteorite, [75] “Alley Oop’s shillelagh,” [126] [altitude], [88], [90], [105], [106] American Meteor Society, [116] American Museum of Natural History, [37] Anderson Township meteorites, [76] Andhâra stone, [147]-8 Andromeda, Great Spiral Nebula in, [2] Andromedid shower, [153] anthills, meteorites in, [128] anti-matter, [58]-60 Aouelloul crater, [65] appearance and disappearance of meteors, [86], [94], [106] applied science, [166] archeologists, [76], [150] areas of fall, [13]-4, [24], [26], [32], [89], [94], [159] armor plate, [167] asteroid belt and orbits, [160]-1 astronautics, [110], [168], [170]-6 ataxites, [120] Athens, multiple fireball over, [149] australites, [134], [140] azimuth, astronomical, [88]
B Bacubirito iron, [128] Bald Eagle iron, [76] ballistic potential, [171] Baxter stone, [73] Bear Lodge iron, [76] Beddgelert stone, [69]-70, [73], [168] bediasites, [136], [137] Belly River stone, [131] Benares meteorite, [156] Bendego iron, [128] Benld stone, [73] Benson, O. O., [179] Bethlehem stone, [73] betyls, [148], [150] Bible, meteorite mentioned in, [147] Bielid shower, [116] “blackfellows’ buttons,” [134] Black Stone of the Kaaba, [147] Boisse, A., [160], [163] bolides, [102], [151] Braunau iron, [73] Brenham craters and meteorites, [52], [65], [66], [78] Box Hole Station crater, [65] Bridgewater meteorite, [75] British Museum, [136], [158] Buddhue, J. D., [179]
C Campo del Cielo craters, [50], [65] Canyon Diablo crater, [44]-52, [65], [66], [75], [96], [161], [162], [165], [174] Cape of Good Hope iron, [150] Cape York iron, [36], [37] Carlton meteorite, [75] Casas Grandes iron, [76] charms, meteorites used as, [134], [136] see also [sacred meteorites]; [superstitions] Chesterfield meteorite, [75] Chladni, E. F. F., [155]-7 chondrules and chondrites, [124]-6, [163] Chubb crater, [52]-4 coins depicting meteorites, [148], [150] collection of meteorites in institutions, [20], [32], [34], [37], [38], [40]-1, [90], [136], [158] comets, [114], [140], [164] composition of meteor-forming particles, [160]-7 composition of meteorites, [118]-26, [163], [179] composition of tektites, [136]-8 Constantia stone, [74] contraterrene matter, [56], [58]-60 convection-current hypothesis, [63]-4 cosmic metal mine, [162], [174]-6 cosmic rays, [168]-71 craters, [17], [18], [20], [42]-65, [66], [96], [143], [178], [179]
D Dalgaranga crater, [65] daubreelite, [124] destruction by meteorites, [11], [15], [16]-19, [54]-7, [68]-70, [73]-4, [178] diamond-bearing meteorite, [82] direction measures, [23], [24], [86]-9, [110] distribution of meteorites, [66]-68, [72], [140]-3, [159] dog and meteorite, [73] doubters of meteorites, [154]-7 “dumbbells,” [135], [136] “dust balls,” [106] [dust, meteoritic], [102], [116]-7, [179]
E “earth-rings,” [142] [earth-trace], [92] eating a meteorite, [82] Einstein, A., [166] elements in meteorites, [118]-24 elements in meteor-forming particles, [107] elevation, apparent, [88], [90] see also [altitude] “end-point,” [16], [86]-91 Enrico Fermi Institute, [168] Ensisheim stone, [152], [154] Eta-Aquarid shower, [114] etching meteorites, [119]-123 evaporation, see [vaporization] “explosions” of meteors and/or meteorites, [18], [23], [25], [55], [56]-60, [63], [86], [92]
F fall, determining area of, [13]-14, [24], [26] see also [oval-shaped areas of fall] falls, witnessed, [11]-22, [23]-34, [67], [68]-72, [82], [84]-95 Farrington, O. C., [178] farmers as meteorite finders, [28], [30], [75]-6 Fermi (Enrico) Institute, [168] fireballs, [2], [10], [11]-13, [23]-5, [54], [69], [84]-92, [102], [106], [149], [151] fishermen net meteorite, [78] fixes, [84]-90 “flanged buttons,” [135], [136] flight-path, see [trajectory] Flows meteorite, [82] footwarmer, meteorite used as, [78] “fossil” meteorites, [144]-6 funnels, impact and penetration, [20], [29], [32], [33], [42], [44] Furnas County stone, [29], [31], [32]-4, [128], [178] see also [Norton County fall] fusion crust, [20], [21], [130], [132], [140], [148], [172]
G Galle, J. G., [92] gamma-ray spectroscopy, [171] Geminid shower, [114] Giacobinid shower, [103], [114], [115] Giacobini-Zinner comet, [114] [glass], [138], [145] see also [silica-glass]; [tektites] Glorieta iron, [126] great-circle distributions, [140]-3
H Harvard meteor-photographs, [110]-1 Haviland craters, [50], [52], [65], [66] Hayden Planetarium, [129] height, [88], [90], [105], [106] Henbury craters, [50], [65] Hey, M. H., [178] hexahedrites, [119], [120] Holbrook stone shower, [128] Howard, E., [155]-7 hunting meteorites, methods of, [84]-100
I “ices,” [106] Illinois Gulch iron, [76] impactites, [143]-5 India, Museum of the Geological Survey of, [41] Indians, [41], [76], [150] Institute for Nuclear Studies, [168] [Institute of Meteoritics], [5], [24], [26]-32, [80], [84], [96], [168], [169], [171] intersecting lines of sight, [84]-90 interstellar space, [92], [171] irons, [19], [36], [37], [39], [40], [41], [48], [73], [75], [76], [78], [82], [99], [116], [118], [120], [121], [128], [129], [133], [143], [150], [155], [163], [167], [174]-5, [179]
J Jones, W. B., [179] Jupiter, [102], [142], [160], [161], [164]
K Kaalijarv crater, [65] kamacite, [124] Kasamatsu stone, [74] Kayser, E., [92] Kenton iron, [75] Kilbourn stone, [74] Klepesta, J., [2] Krasnoyarsk iron, [155]
L laboratory procedures, [5], [81], [83], [118], [120], [128], [167]-71 La Caille meteorite, [78] L’Aigle stone shower, [157], [158] Lake Murray iron, [77], [79], [80]-3 Lake Okeechobee stone, [78] LaPaz, L., [178], [179] largest meteorites, see [weights and weighing of meteorites] Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Academy of Science of, [158] Leonard, F. C., [178] Leonid shower, [114], [115] Lick Creek iron, [76] Londonderry Laboratory for Radiochemistry, [168] Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, [171] “lost” meteorites, [38], [40], [41], [80], [82], [95] lunar craters, [60]-4, [179] see also [moon, craters on] Lyrid shower, [112], [114]
M magic attributed to meteorites, see [superstitions] Mars, [160], [161] “Martian spaceship,” [60] Maximilian I, [152]-4 Mazapil iron, [116] Mebane, A. D., [177] Medvedev, P. I., [10] Merrill, G. P., [178] Mesaverde iron, [76] metals, meteorites as sources of, [174]-5 meteorite detectors, [48], [52], [96]-100, [178] meteoriteless meteorite crater, [56] meteorite-planet hypothesis, [140], [160], [163], [174] meteorite showers, [73]-4, [128], [157], [158], [159] meteorites, true or false, [130]-3 meteoritics, [5], [104], [166]-7 meteors, [101]-17 meteor showers, [103], [111], [112]-116, [117], [152], [153] meteor steel, [167] micro-meteorites, see [dust, meteoritic] minerals in meteorites, [120]-6, [156], [163] miners as meteorite finders, [70], [76], [144] mining in space, [162], [174]-6 Montezuma temple iron, [76] moon, [60]-4, [140], [170] [moon, craters on], [60]-4, [179] Morito iron, [128] Moscow, Academy of Sciences at, [20] Mount Darwin, Tasmania, crater, [65]; silica-glass, [143] Mount Joy iron, [75]-6 Murfreesboro iron, [76]
N “natural nuclear explosion,” [60] Neumann, J., [158] nickel-iron, [19], [32], [96], [98], [118], [120], [122], [123], [124], [126], [132], [143], [150], [161], [163], [170], [174] [Norton County fall], [23]-34, [90], [93], [94], [96], [126], [128], [130], [168] Novo-Urei stone, [82]
O obsidian mistaken for tektite, [138]-9 octahedrites, [120], [121] Odessa crater, [43], [44], [52], [65], [66], [75] oldest collection of meteorites, [76] oldest crater, [52] Olivier, C. P., [116], [177] Opava irons, [76] [orbits], [108]-112, [160], [161] origin of meteorites, [160], [163], [164], [174] Orionid shower, [112], [114] [oval-shaped areas of fall], [32], [89], [94], [159] ownership of meteorites, [36], [38]
P Pallas, P. S., [155] pallasites, [122], [155] Pantar stone shower, [74] parallax and parallactic displacement, [105], [106] Paris, Museum of Natural History at, [38], [158] paths of meteors, [84]-94, [116] see also [earth-trace]; [orbits]; [speeds]; [trajectory]; [velocity] patterns, structural, [120], [121], [172] Pawnee Indians, [41] Peary, R. E., [36], [37], [128] Perry, S. H., [179] Perseid shower, [114], [115] person struck by meteorite, [70]-2, [178], [179] piezoglyphs, [131], [132] Pittsburgh iron, [78], [80] plessite, [124] plotting meteor paths, [116] Plymouth meteorite, [75] [Podkamennaya Tunguska] fall, [50], [54]-60, [65], [102] polishing meteorites, [5], [118], [120], [123] Port Orford stony-iron, [40] Prague Observatory, [2] Prior, G. T., [178] Proctor, R. A., [164] Pultusk fireball, [92] Purdue University, [170] pure science, [166] “purloined” meteorite, [36], [39]
Q Quadrantid shower, [114]
R radiant of meteor shower, [112], [113] radioactivities, [5], [60], [133], [138], [168], [170]-1 Rafrüti iron, [78] rainfall, connected with meteor showers, [117] random distribution, [62] ray-craters, [60]-4 recoveries of meteorites, [14]-22, [24], [26]-8, [31], [33], [35], [75]-82, [84]-100 Red River iron, [41] re-entry, [172], [173] [reports, eyewitness], [23], [24], [84], [86], [90], [92], [94]-5 reversed matter, [56], [58]-60 Richland iron, [75] Rigel, [92] rocketry, [110], [174]-6 Rojansky, V., [58]
S [sacred meteorites], [147]-50 see also [superstitions] San Emigdio stone, [80] satellites, man-made, [172] Saturn’s rings, [142] sawing meteorites, [81], [167]-9 Schiaparelli, G. V., [177] Schmidt, J. F. J., [149] schreibersite, [124] Scottsville iron, [76] Seeläsgen iron, [75] Shakespeare, meteors mentioned by, [152] shale balls, [48], [133] shapes of meteorites, [18], [32], [126]-8, [134]-7, [140], [172] Shirihagi iron, [150] “shooting stars,” [104] showers, meteor, [103], [111], [112]-116, [117], [152], [153] showers, meteorite, [73], [74], [128], [157], [158], [159] Siena fall, [156] Sikhote-Alin fall, see [Ussuri] [silica-glass], [50], [54], [143] see also [glass]; [tektites] silicate-siderites, [122], [123] Sirius, [92] “skymarks,” [92] smallest meteorites, [48], [128] see also [dust, meteoritic] Solar System, [5], [111], [164], [175]-6 sounds made by falling meteorites, [11], [12], [24], [25],26, [94]-5, [148], [159] space exploration and ships, [5], [168], [170]-6 space-probes, [170]-1 space mining, [162], [174]-6 spectra and spectrograms, meteor, [107] spectroscopy, gamma-ray, [171] [speeds], [21], [32], [107], [108], [109], [110]-12, [126], [172] Spencer, L. J., [179] stainless steel, [120], [122], [167] [stones, meteoritic], [28]-34, [35], [70], [71]-2, [73]-4, [78], [80], [82], [118], [120]-4, [128], [130], [131], [132], [133], [148], [156]-7, [163] stony-irons, [40]-1, [118], [122], [124], [163] strata, effect of impact on, [43], [44]-5, [48]-51 [superstitions] about meteors and meteorites, [25], [56], [82], [134], [136], [147]-52, [154] swarms, meteorite, [50] swarms, meteor-particle, [111], [112], [114] Swindel, G. W., Jr., [179] “swords from heaven,” [150] Sylacauga stone, [71]-2, [74], [179]
T taenite, [124] tektite-obsidian test, [138]-9 [tektites], [134]-146, [160] tests for true meteorites, [130]-3 “thumb-prints,” [131], [132] [trajectory], [90], [92], [173] tritium, [170] Tucson iron, [128] Tungus, see [Podkamennaya Tunguska] twice-found meteorites, [76] Tycho, lunar ray-crater, [61]
U University of California Radiation Laboratory, [58] University of Chicago, [168] University of New Mexico, [24], [30] see also [Institute of Meteoritics] University of Nebraska, [30], [80] U. S. National Museum, [40], [158] [Ussuri] fall, [10], [11]-34, [42], [50], [54], [65], [130]
V [vaporization], [102], [107], [116], [126], [128], [143], [145], [162], [172], [174] [velocity], [107], [108], [109], [171], [179] Venus, [102], [162] Verbeek, R. D. M., [140] Vienna, National History Museum of, [41], [158] volcanic theories, [138], [155], [156], [164]
W Wabar craters, [50], [65], [143], [162] Wasiutynski, J., [63]-4, [179] water, meteorites under, [78] waves, air and water, [12], [54]-5 weather, effect of meteoritic dust on, [117] weathering of meteorites, [38], [48], [52], [53], [54], [66], [133], [144] [weights and weighing of meteorites], [35], [36], [128], [130] White, C. S., [179] Widmanstätten pattern, [120], [121], [122], [158] Whipple, F. L., [177], [179] Willamette iron, [36], [128], [129] Wold Cottage meteorite, [156] Wolf Creek crater, [52], [53], [65], [75], [133]
Y Yale University, [41] young people and meteoritics, [23], [24], [28], [34], [39], [90], [98], [99], [116] see also [reports, eyewitness]
Z Zhovtnevy Hutor fall, [82]