Meteorites
Subtitle: A Petrologic, Chemical and Isotopic Synthesis (Cambridge Planetary Science)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 11, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780521470100
Subjects: Meteors; Science; Science/Mathematics; Astronomy - Solar System; Science / Mineralogy; Meteorites; Earth Sciences - Mineralogy; Astronomy - General
First sentence: Of the approximately 40 000 tonnes of extraterrestrial material that the Earth captures annually, 1% or less is in pieces big enough for recovery by witnesses of their fall.