| | Book | METEORITICS H . H . Nininger DIRECTOR , AMERICAN METEORITE MUSEUM The University of Denver Press Science...Survey of Cana da , the Geological Institute of Mexico , the University of Ken tucky , the University...of people from the United States , Canada , and Mexico who have responded to his many requests for infor...RELATIONS THE PLAINVIEW METEORITE SHOWER THE KIOWA COUNTY METEORITES METEORITE CRATERS A COMPOSITE SWARM...METEORITES AND THE MOON 280 TEKTITES 297 GREAT METEORITE COLLECTIONS 309 PROPOSED NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF | | | Book | obtain a panorama of the scope and substance of meteorite research. I endeavored to remedy this situation...not exhaustively discussed—the great upsurge in meteorite research along many new lines in recent years...and conservation of meteoritic material. Every meteorite is to some degree unique; and meteorites, unlike...I not been favored bv the curatorship of the meteorite collection of The American Museum of Natural History...Chicago Natural History Museum, the Nininger Meteorite Collection (Arizona State University, Tempe), | | | Book | minerals are quartz and aluminosilicates; the common meteorite minerals are anhydrous, whereas hydrated minerals...actual extraterrestrial abundances; irons dominate meteorite finds, since they are resistant to weathering...at least as very unusual objects). Over 80% of meteorite falls are chondrites, and over 90% of these belong...subject. Current ideas include volcanism on the meteorite parent bodies, splash droplets formed in collisions...for them and a derivate origin for the other meteorite groups. As a consequence, compositional data are | | | Book | Nininger Ask A Question About Meteorites Arizona's Meteorite Crater Out Of The Sky The Nininger Collection...G. Mullerreid, Uni- viii PREFACE versity of Mexico; Prof. Harlow Shapley, Department of Astronomy...National Museum; Prof. E.J. Workman, Director, New Mexico School of Mines; and many others. Writers who kept...project at the White Sands Proving Grounds in N e w Mexico, December 1946. We were to photograph the first...cannot identify the parent body from which any meteorite was broken off. Presumably, meteorites come from | | | Book | Naturelle, Paris); Lincoln La Paz (University of New Mexico); Frederick Leonard (University of Cal"". ifornia...Pretoria, South Africa); H. H. Nininger (Amer ican Meteorite Museum); J. J. Orcel (Museum National d'Histoire...(1864) 1492-B-1 Brant, S. A poem on the Ensisheim meteorite. (written in Latin with German translation). Book:...discoveries in New Mexico, five hundred leagues to the North from the old Mexico. Purchas's His Pilgrims...Printed by W. Stansby, London ( 1625) Bache, A. Meteorite at Antony, near Plymouth. Pamphlet: 1640-B-l The |
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