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The definitive guide to modern meteor science, destined to be the standard resource for advanced students and researchers.
A comprehensive overview of the extraterrestrial matter that falls to Earth from space.
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.
Understand the differences in size and composition of meteoroids, meteors and meteorites. The information included in this book should help you create the differentiation between these three forms of heavenly bodies. The included images and targeted information makes this book a worthy read for fourth grade students. Enjoy the read!
Astrophysical models for meteoroid formation and stellar and planetary evolutions are developed from simulation composition studies.
This rigorously refereed volume is a compilation of articles that summarize the most recent results in meteor, meteoroid and related fields presented at the Meteoroids 2007 conference held at the impressive CosmoCaixa Science Museum in Barcelona, Spain.
A study of meteors, by a Soviet scientist, with interesting information on the history of the study of meteors from a Russian viewpoint, collisions of meteors with the earth, meteor streams, other small bodies of the solar system, and processes of evolution in the system of small bodies of the solar system.
An introduction to the celestial phenomena of asteroids, meteoroids and meteorites, and comets.