The History of Meteoritics and Key Meteorite Collections: Fireballs, Falls and Finds
Product code: SP256
Print publication date: 02/07/2006
Geological Society of London, GSL Special Publications, History of Geology, Planetary geology and meteoritics, Museums and collections
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781862391949
Author/Edited by: Edited by G J H McCall, A J Bowden and R J Howarth
Weight: 1.3kg
Number of pages: 520
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/256/1
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Special Publication 256
This Special Publication has 24 papers with an international authorship, and is prefaced by an introductory overview which presents highlights in the field. The first section covers the acceptance by science of the reality of the falls of rock and metal from the sky, an account that takes the reader from BCE (before common era) to the nineteenth century. The second section details some of the world's most important collections in museums - their origins and development. The Smithsonian chapter also covers the astonishingly numerous finds in the cold desert of Antarctica by American search parties. There are also contributions covering the finds by Japanese parties in the Yamato mountains and the equally remarkable discoveries in the hot deserts of Australia, North Africa, Oman and the USA. The other seven chapters take the reader through the revolution in scientific research on meteoritics in the later part of the twentieth century, including terrestrial impact cratering and extraordinary showers of glass from the sky; tektites, now known to be Earth-impact-sourced. Finally, the short epilogue looks to the future.
Foreword
Acknowledgements
McCALL, G. J. H., BOWDEN, A. J. & HOWARTH, R. J. The history of meteoritics - overview
Early beginnings
MARVIN, U. B. Meteorites in history: an overview from the Renaissance to the 20th century
GOUNELLE, M. The meteorite fall at L' Aigle and the Biot report: exploring the cradle of meteoritics
JANKOVIC, V. The end of classical meteorology, c. 1800
HOWARTH, R. J. Understanding the nature of meteorites: the experimental work of Gabriel-Auguste Daubree
Key meteoritic collections
BRANDSTATTER, F. History of the meteorite collection of the Natural History Museum of Vienna
GRESHAKE, A. History of the meteorite collection at the Museum fur Naturkunde, Berlin
RUSSELL, S. & GRADY, M. M. A history of the meteorite collection at the Natural History Museum, London
CAILLET KOMOROWSKI, C. L. V. The meteorite collection of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France
CONSOLMAGNO, G. J. A brief history of the Vatican meteorite collection
IVANOVA, M. A. & NAZAROV, M. A. History of the meteorite collection of the Russian Academy of Sciences
CLARKE, R. S., JR, PLOTKIN, H. & McCOY, T. J. Meteorites and the Smithsonian Institution
EBEL, D.S. History of the American Museum of Natural History meteorite collection
KOJIMA, H. The history of Japanese Antarctic meteorites
BEVAN, A. W.R. The Western Australian Museum meteorite collection
BEVAN, A. W. R. Desert meteorites: a history
Contemporary meteoritics
McCALL, G. J. H. Chondrules and calcium-aluminium-rich inclusions (CAls) De LAETER, J. R. The history of meteorite age determinations
BOWDEN, A. J. Meteorite provenance and the asteroid connection GRADY, M. M. The history of research on meteorites from Mars
BRUSH, S. G. Meteorites and the origin of the solar system
McCALL, G. J. H. Meteorite cratering: Hooke, Gilbert, Barringer and beyond McCALL, G. J. H. The history of tektites
McCALL, G. J. H., BOWDEN, A. J., WOOD, J. A. & MARVIN, u. B. Epilogue
Index
