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Author: Aly A. Barakat
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781621009399
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book intends to provide readers an open invitation to liberate themselves and leave aside caution from meteorites threat, which is widely spread over media to survey one of the brightness sides of meteorites; their offering to humans from the economic point of view.
Author: Gregory Vogt
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9780736811200
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes what meteors and micrometeors are, and describes the different types of meteorites, including lunar and martian meteorites, and how meteorites form craters.
Author: Robert Hutchison
Publisher: Balogh Scientific Books
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An account of the present knowledge about meteorites, and a discussion of what they tell us about the evolution of the solar system and life on Earth. The book is aimed at a wide readership - including secondary students, beginning geologists and general readers.
Author: Kevin R. Evans
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 0813724376
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Although about 70 percent of known terrestrial meteorite impacts involve sedimentary rocks, the response of such rock to hyper- velocity impact is not well understand. Evans (Missouri State U., Springfield) introduces a dozen papers from a session on impact geology at the 2004 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting. Arranged by rocks' stratigraphic order (oldest to youngest) in proximal and distal settings, papers study topics including: characterization of impact sediments; a model for impact cratering processes; development of breccias (rock composed of sharp fragments embedded in a fine- grained matrix) in the Chesapeake Bay impact structure; and the method of impact stratigraphy applied to aging of the K-T boundary associated with mass extinction. The well-illustrated volume is not indexed.
Author: George Managadze
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781613245101
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book offers a new concept of the possible genesis of primary forms of living matter in the processes that accompany a hypervelocity meteorite impact onto the surface of a planet. The concept is based on results obtained in direct impact experiments and in laboratory simulations of hypervelocity impact processes involving the generation of a plasma torch, on bona fide data on the physical processes occurring in nature, and on the available material evidence of impact consequences on Solar system bodies. The concept can explain the possibility of the emergence of extraterrestrial life in the interiors of celestial bodies with extreme surface temperatures and moderate temperatures in the inner layers provided water is present.
Author: Brian Cudnik
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2010-03-10
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1441903240
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The genesis of modern searches for observable meteoritic phenomena on the Moon is the paper by Lincoln La Paz in Popular Astronomy magazine in 1938. In it he argued that the absence of observed fashes of meteoritic impacts on the Moon might be interpreted to mean that these bodies are destroyed as luminous meteors in an extremely rarefed lunar atmosphere. The paper suggested the possibility of systematic searches for such possible lunar meteors. With these concepts in mind, I was surprised to note a transient moving bright speck on the Moon on July 10, 1941. It appeared to behave very much as a lunar meteor would – except that the poorly estimated duration would lead to a strongly hyperbolic heliocentric velocity. Thus, the idea of systematic searches for both p- sible lunar meteors and meteoritic impact fashes was born. It was appreciated that much time might need to be expended to achieve any positive results. Systematic searches were carried out by others and myself chiefy in the years 1945–1965 and became a regular program at the newly founded Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, or ALPO.
Author: Monica M. Grady
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781862390171
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The impact of extraterrestrial material on Earth can lead to effects traceable in both the geological and biological record. This study describes meteorite flux with time, covering small and large bodies capable of producing craters. The effects of impacts on the environment is also covered focusing specifically on the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction event.
Author: Ronnie McKenzie
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Published: 2014-08-04
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 1775841731
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Meteorites are the remnants of meteors from outer space that have survived the corridor of fire through Earth's atmosphere and landed on our planet. Rare, and bearing secrets about the formation of our Universe, these 'treasures from space' have fascinated people ever since they were first identified in the late 18th century as extraterrestrial arrivals. This jam-packed book by enthusiast and collector Ronnie McKenzie introduces the topic in straightforward language and is richly illustrated with some 200 photographs and diagrams. It discusses how to identify meteorites, where they come from and where they have landed on Earth, the many different types, and how to set about collecting them. It also dispels some of the myths about these stones, and presents some infamous meteorite scams. A handy basic guide for those new to the topic, and for anyone interested in entering the field of meteorite collecting.
Author: W. U. Reimold
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 676
ISBN-13: 0813724651
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution held at the Vredefort Dome, South Africa, in Aug. 2008.
