K Kaalijarv crater, 65 kamacite, 124 Kasamatsu stone, 74 Kayser, E., 92 Kenton iron, 75 Kilbourn stone, 74 Klepesta, J., 2 Krasnoyarsk iron, 155 L laboratory procedures, 5, 81, 83, 118, 120, 128, 167-71 La Caille meteorite, 78 L’Aigle stone shower, 157, 158 Lake Murray iron, 77, 79, 80-3 Lake Okeechobee stone, 78 LaPaz, L., 178, 179 largest meteorites, _see_ weights and weighing of meteorites Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Academy of Science of, 158 Leonard, F. C., 178 Leonid shower, 114, 115 Lick Creek iron, 76 Londonderry Laboratory for Radiochemistry, 168 Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 171 “lost” meteorites, 38, 40, 41, 80, 82, 95 lunar craters, 60-4, 179 _see also_ moon, craters on Lyrid shower, 112, 114 M magic attributed to meteorites, _see_ superstitions Mars, 160, 161 “Martian spaceship,” 60 Maximilian I, 152-4 Mazapil iron, 116 Mebane, A. D., 177 Medvedev, P. I., 10 Merrill, G. P., 178 Mesaverde iron, 76 metals, meteorites as sources of, 174-5 meteorite detectors, 48, 52, 96-100, 178 meteoriteless meteorite crater, 56 meteorite-planet hypothesis, 140, 160, 163, 174 meteorite showers, 73-4, 128, 157, 158, 159 meteorites, true or false, 130-3 meteoritics, 5, 104, 166-7 meteors, 101-17 meteor showers, 103, 111, 112-116, 117, 152, 153 meteor steel, 167 micro-meteorites, _see_ dust, meteoritic minerals in meteorites, 120-6, 156, 163 miners as meteorite finders, 70, 76, 144 mining in space, 162, 174-6 Montezuma temple iron, 76 moon, 60-4, 140, 170 moon, craters on, 60-4, 179 Morito iron, 128 Moscow, Academy of Sciences at, 20 Mount Darwin, Tasmania, crater, 65; silica-glass, 143 Mount Joy iron, 75-6 Murfreesboro iron, 76 N “natural nuclear explosion,” 60 Neumann, J., 158 nickel-iron, 19, 32, 96, 98, 118, 120, 122, 123, 124, 126, 132, 143, 150, 161, 163, 170, 174 Norton County fall, 23-34, 90, 93, 94, 96, 126, 128, 130, 168 Novo-Urei stone, 82 O obsidian mistaken for tektite, 138-9 octahedrites, 120, 121 Odessa crater, 43, 44, 52, 65, 66, 75 oldest collection of meteorites, 76 oldest crater, 52 Olivier, C. P., 116, 177 Opava irons, 76 orbits, 108-112, 160, 161 origin of meteorites, 160, 163, 164, 174 Orionid shower, 112, 114 oval-shaped areas of fall, 32, 89, 94, 159 ownership of meteorites, 36, 38