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]