METEORITES
FARRINGTON, O. C. “A Catalogue of the Meteorites of North America to January 1, 1909,” Memoirs, National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 13 (1915). Contains fascinating accounts of the phenomena connected with meteorite falls, interspersed with lengthy technical chemical and microscopic studies of meteorites.
FARRINGTON, O. C. Meteorites [published by the author], Chicago, 1915. The classic American work on meteorites. The first half of the book is popular; the last half is technical.
HEY, M. H. and PRIOR, G. T. Catalogue of Meteorites, William Clowes & Sons, London, 1953. An exhaustive catalog of all recognized and also, unfortunately, of many doubtful meteorite falls and finds, from the beginning of the historical record up to December 1952.
LAPAZ, LINCOLN. “The Achondritic Shower of February 18, 1948,” Publications, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 61 (1949), pp. 63-73.
LAPAZ, LINCOLN. “The Effects of Meteorites upon the Earth,” Advances in Geophysics, Vol. 4, edited by H. E. Landsberg, Academic Press, New York, 1958, pp. 217-350. A monograph covering such topics as meteorite hits upon buildings and people, meteorite detectors, and the nature and age of meteorite craters.
LEONARD, F. C. “The Furnas County, Kansas, Achondritic Fall (1000,400),” Contributions, Meteoritical Society, Vol. 4 (1948), pp. 138-141. This paper and the eighth item, above, discuss the phenomena of the fall of the largest aerolite so far recovered anywhere in the world.
MERRILL, G. P. “The Story of Meteorites,” Minerals from Earth and Sky, Vol. 3, Part I, Smithsonian Scientific Series, 1929, pp. 1-163. A chiefly popular survey of the subject by a master meteoriticist.
PERRY, S. H. The Metallography of Meteoric [meteoritic] Iron, U. S. National Museum Bulletin No. 184 (1944). A summary of knowledge on the subject, supplemented by exceptionally fine photographs of etched meteorite sections.
SWINDEL, G. W., JR., and JONES, WALTER B. “The Sylacauga, Talladega County, Alabama, Aerolite: A Recent Meteoritic Fall that Injured a Human Being,” Meteoritics, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1954), pp. 125-132.
WHITE, C. S. and BENSON, OTIS O. (editors) Physics and Medicine of the Upper Atmosphere, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1952. See Chapter X, “Meteoritic Phenomena and Meteorites,” by F. L. Whipple, pp. 137-170; and Chapter XIX, “Meteoroids, Meteorites, and Hyperbolic Meteoritic Velocities,” by Lincoln LaPaz, pp. 352-393. Modern views on the meteorite velocity controversy.