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Subject(s)

• Meteorites [Browse]
• Astronomy—History [Browse]
• Cosmology [Browse]

Series

• McGraw-Hill horizons of science series [More in this series]
• The McGraw-Hill horizons of science series

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Introduction / Dominique Lecourt
• I. Meteorites and micrometeorites
• The power of Jupiter
• A first rendezvous on the Moon
• II. The search, the stakes, and the heroes
• Becoming a meteorite and micrometeorite hunter
• A gallery of portraits of meteorite hunters
• The hunt for micrometeorites
• Still more meteorites? Why?
• III. Approaching "primitiveness"
• The usefulness of a classification
• Desperately seeking parent
• The passion for primitiveness
• Hunting for isotopes
• The microscopic hunt for presolar grains
• IV. From the presolar time scale to the origin of life
• The presolar time scale of cataclysms
• The nebular time scale
• Meteorites and formation of the earth
• Meteorites and the origin of life
• Meteorites and evolution of life.

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ISBN

• 0070410291 ((acid-free paper))
• 9780070410299 ((acid-free paper))

LCCN

93023978

OCLC

28222141

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