Cabinet Of Curiosities, A: The Myth, Magic And Measure Of Meteorites
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A01=Martin Beech
Asteroids
Author_Martin Beech
Borisov
Category=PG
Comets
Draco Volans
Earth
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Fireball
Impact Craters
Interstellar Interlopers
Lithopanspermia
Meteorites
Origin of Life
Oumuamua
Solar System
Visitors in Solar System
Visitors on Earth
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- ISBN 9789811224911
- Publication Date: 19 Apr 2021
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
- Publication City/Country: SG
- Product Form: Hardback
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Hurtling through the atmosphere, in a blaze of light and reverberating percussions, the arrival of a meteorite on Earth is a magical, rare, and precious sight. These characteristics have accordingly ensured a long, yet often controversial history. For all this, meteorites are cosmic messengers. They tell us about the entire history of the solar system, their story carrying us from the very earliest moments, when solid material first began to form in the solar nebula. Indeed, meteorites played a key role in the origins of Earth's oceans and the genesis of life. Meteorites additionally tell us about the origin and evolution of the asteroids, and they tell us about impacts upon the Moon as well as the volcanic history of planet Mars. Much is known about the structure and chemistry of meteorites, but for all this, they still harbor many scientific mysteries that have yet to be resolved.
