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The awesome event a meteorite-fall can be, with its violent sound and light effects, and its terrific impact.
The excitement and the know-how of the hunt for these cosmic missiles.
How to tell the difference between a true meteorite and a mistaken one. Ditto, meteorite craters.
How to make your own contribution to science by knowing the right way to observe and report meteors and meteorites.
What is inside them, and how they vary in content and structure.
The moon as a meteorite target.
The strange history of the subject—the amusing superstitions and fantastic notions believed until recently about “shooting stars” and “stones falling from the sky.”
And more.
Here is an easy but sound introduction to the rapidly developing science of meteoritics. All of the information is up-to-date, much of it firsthand, for the authors are themselves professional meteoriticists. Daily they are engaged in fieldwork, laboratory analysis, and advanced research at one of the world’s chief centers for this study. (See back of jacket.)