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Space Nomads: Meteorites in Sky, Field, and Laboratory
LaPaz, Lincoln
Meteorites
LAPAZ, LINCOLN. “The Effects of Meteorites upon the Earth,” _Advances in
Geophysics_, Vol. 4, edited by H. E. Landsberg, Academic Press, New
York, 1958, pp. 217-350. A monograph covering such topics as meteorite
hits upon buildings and people, meteorite detectors, and the nature and
age of meteorite craters.
LEONARD, F. C. “The Furnas County, Kansas, Achondritic Fall (1000,400),”
_Contributions, Meteoritical Society_, Vol. 4 (1948), pp. 138-141. This
paper and the eighth item, above, discuss the phenomena of the fall of
the largest aerolite so far recovered anywhere in the world.
MERRILL, G. P. “The Story of Meteorites,” _Minerals from Earth and Sky_,
Vol. 3, Part I, Smithsonian Scientific Series, 1929, pp. 1-163. A
chiefly popular survey of the subject by a master meteoriticist.
PERRY, S. H. _The Metallography of Meteoric_ [meteoritic] _Iron_, U. S.
National Museum Bulletin No. 184 (1944). A summary of knowledge on the
subject, supplemented by exceptionally fine photographs of etched
meteorite sections.
SWINDEL, G. W., JR., and JONES, WALTER B. “The Sylacauga, Talladega
County, Alabama, Aerolite: A Recent Meteoritic Fall that Injured a Human
Being,” _Meteoritics_, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1954), pp. 125-132.
WHITE, C. S. and BENSON, OTIS O. (editors) _Physics and Medicine of the
Upper Atmosphere_, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1952.
See Chapter X, “Meteoritic Phenomena and Meteorites,” by F. L. Whipple,
pp. 137-170; and Chapter XIX, “Meteoroids, Meteorites, and Hyperbolic
Meteoritic Velocities,” by Lincoln LaPaz, pp. 352-393. Modern views on
the meteorite velocity controversy.
METEORITE CRATERS
LAPAZ, LINCOLN. “The Craters on the Moon,” _Scientific American_, Vol.
181, No. 4 (1949), pp. 2-3. A popular exposition of the
Bénard-Wasiutynski theory of the origin of the ordinary (nonrayed)
craters on the moon.
SPENCER, L. J. “Meteorite Craters as Topographical Features on the
Earth’s Surface,” _Geographical Journal_, Vol. 81 (1933), pp. 227-248.
The classic paper on terrestrial meteorite craters.
METEORITIC DUST
BUDDHUE, J. D. _Meteoritic Dust_, The University of New Mexico Press,
Albuquerque, 1950. An account of the various techniques used in
collecting and studying meteoritic dust; and also of the conclusions
drawn from the study of such dust.
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