Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites Paperback / softback - 2008 - 2008th Edition
by O. Richard Norton
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- Title Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites
- Author O. Richard Norton
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition number 2008th
- Edition 2008
- Condition New
- Pages 287
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Springer, London
- Date 2008-04-28
- Features Glossary, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # B9781848001565
- ISBN 9781848001565 / 1848001568
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.9 in (25.15 x 17.53 x 2.29 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008921357
- Dewey Decimal Code 523.51
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From the rear cover
Imagine the unique experience of being the very first person to hold a newly-found meteorite in your hand - a rock from space, older than Earth!
"Weekend meteorite hunting" with magnets and metal detectors is becoming ever more popular as a pastime, but of course you can't just walk around and pick up meteorites in the same way that you can pick up seashells on the beach. Those fragments that survived the intense heat of re-entry tend to disguise themselves as natural rocks over time, and it takes a trained eye - along with the information in this book - to recognize them.
Just as amateur astronomers are familiar with the telescopes and accessories needed to study a celestial object, amateur meteoriticists have to use equipment ranging from simple hand lenses to microscopes to study a specimen, to identify its type and origins.
Equipment and techniques are covered in detail here of course, along with a complete and fully illustratedguide to what you might find and where you might find it. In fact, the Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites contains pretty much everything an amateur astronomer - or geologist - needs to know about meteors and meteorites.
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