Space Nomads: Meteorites in Sky, Field, and Laboratory

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PREFACE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. A METEORITE FALLS IN THE TAIGA, U.S.S.R.

2. A METEORITE FALLS IN THE WHEATLAND, U.S.A.

3. FOUND AND LOST GIANTS

4. WHEN IS A CRATER A METEORITE CRATER?

5. HEAVEN KNOWS WHERE OR WHEN

6. FINDERS FOOLISH, FINDERS WISE

7. LANDMARKS, SKYMARKS and DETECTORS

8. THE NATURE OF METEORS

9. THE NATURE OF METEORITES

10. TEKTITES, IMPACTITES and "FOSSIL" METEORITES

11. OMENS AND FANTASIES

12. THE MODERN VIEW

13. PRESENT AND FUTURE APPLICATIONS

FOR FURTHER READING

INDEX

FOOTNOTES

Transcriber's Notes

LINCOLN LAPAZ
AND JEAN LAPAZ

SPACE
NOMADS
METEORITES IN SKY,
FIELD, & LABORATORY

HOLIDAY HOUSE, NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1961, BY LINCOLN LaPAZ & JEAN LaPAZ
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.

COURTESY OF AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Fireball speeding across field of camera during the photographing of the Great Spiral Nebula in Andromeda, by Josef Klepesta, at the Prague Observatory, Czechoslovakia, September 12, 1923.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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