Meteorites

by Fritz Heide

Book Overview

Meteorites - as well as shooting stars and meteors - result from a collision of a solid body from space with our Earth, but only meteorites are able to penetrate the Earth's protective shield, the atmosphere, and fall to the Earth's surface. Before the return of lunar samples, they were the only materials from beyond the Earth which we could take in hand and study.
This book gives a concise and up-to-date description of meteorites - fall phenomena,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540581057
• ISBN13: 9783540581055
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.1"