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]