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By Danilo Ostrogorsky (editor)
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9781619421158 | Nova Science Pub Inc, June 30, 2012, cover price $95.00

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Product Description: Astonishing new research suggests that 470 million years ago, an enormous collision in the Asteroid Belt, which orbits the sun between Mars and Jupiter, bombarded the Earth with meteorites. That bombardment may have resulted in the single greatest increase in biological diversity on the planet since life began...read more
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9780762778287 | Lyons Pr, October 18, 2011, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Astonishing new research suggests that 470 million years ago, an enormous collision in the Asteroid Belt, which orbits the sun between Mars and Jupiter, bombarded the Earth with meteorites.

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Product Description: This multiauthor book is a compilation of fourteen papers that result from activities within the scientific programme "Response of the Earth System to Impact Processes" (IMPACT) of the European Science Foundation. The program deals with all aspects of meteorite impact research and operates through workshops, exchange programs and short courses...read more
By Lauri J. Pesonen (editor) and Juri Plado (editor)
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9783540435174 | Springer Verlag, September 1, 2002, cover price $189.00 | About this edition: This multiauthor book is a compilation of fourteen papers that result from activities within the scientific programme "Response of the Earth System to Impact Processes" (IMPACT) of the European Science Foundation.

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9783642078033 | Springer Verlag, February 15, 2011, cover price $189.00 | About this edition: This multiauthor book is a compilation of fourteen papers that result from activities within the scientific programme "Response of the Earth System to Impact Processes" (IMPACT) of the European Science Foundation.

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Product Description: A fascinating and authoritative introduction to the science of meteorites, written by leading experts in the field. Meteorites are rocks from space that have fallen to the Earth's surface. Once considered bad omens, they are now recognized for giving us a unique insight into the nature of the material that was present when our solar system formed...read more
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9781554075157 | Firefly Books Ltd, August 28, 2009, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A fascinating and authoritative introduction to the science of meteorites, written by leading experts in the field.

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9781554078332 | Firefly Books Ltd, December 23, 2010, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A fascinating and authoritative introduction to the science of meteorites, written by leading experts in the field.

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Explores the relationship between the Sun and the smaller celestial bodies, including asteroids, meteorites, and comets, from the point of view of a planetary scientist, examining their role as recorders of the formation of the solar system.
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9780816076963, titled "Asteroids, Meteorites, and Comets" | Revised edition (Facts on File, August 1, 2010), cover price $39.50
9780816051953 | Chelsea House Pub, April 1, 2006, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Explores the relationship between the Sun and the smaller celestial bodies, including asteroids, meteorites, and comets, from the point of view of a planetary scientist, examining their role as recorders of the formation of the solar system.

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Product Description: Month-by-month information on meteor showers and how to make the most of watching them Advice on starting and building a meteorite collection plus the scientific explanation of what meteors are and where they come from Includes new information about recent space exploration and studies of meteors Mike Reynolds' guide to meteors and meteorites is revised and updated to include the latest information about meteor study and sightings...read more
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9780811736169 | 2 rev upd edition (Stackpole Books, July 31, 2010), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Month-by-month information on meteor showers and how to make the most of watching them Advice on starting and building a meteorite collection plus the scientific explanation of what meteors are and where they come from Includes new information about recent space exploration and studies of meteors Mike Reynolds' guide to meteors and meteorites is revised and updated to include the latest information about meteor study and sightings.

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9780531228043 | Childrens Pr, March 1, 2010, cover price $6.95

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9780531168974 | Childrens Pr, September 1, 2009, cover price $28.00

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9780816064694 | 1 edition (Facts on File, December 1, 2008), cover price $39.50

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Describes small interplanetary bodies, including asteroids, comets, and meteorites.
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9781429600590 | Revised edition (First Facts, August 1, 2007), cover price $24.65 | About this edition: 'Describes the small solar system bodies asteroids, comets, and meteorites'--Provided by publisher.

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Product Description: Meteorite research is fundamental to our understanding of the origin and early history of the Solar System. This book considers the mechanism and timing of core formation and basaltic volcanism on asteroids, and the effects of heating water-rich bodies...read more
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9780521470100 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 15, 2004, cover price $157.99 | About this edition: Meteorite research is fundamental to our understanding of the origin and early history of the Solar System.

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9780521035392 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 29, 2007, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Meteorite research is fundamental to our understanding of the origin and early history of the Solar System.

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Product Description: They range in size from microscopic particles to masses of many tons. The geologic diversity of asteroids and other rocky bodies of the solar system are displayed in the enormous variety of textures and mineralogies observed in meteorites...read more
By Richard P. Binzel (foreword by), H. Y. McSween, Jr. (editor) and Harry Y. McSween (editor)
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9780816525621 | Univ of Arizona Pr, July 11, 2006, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: They range in size from microscopic particles to masses of many tons.

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Describes how an ancient meteorite found in the Antarctic wilderness led to the controversial discovery of possible signs of microbial Martian life, profiling the key players in the scientific uproar that followed and the implications of that discovery on the lives of the participants, the world of science and the continuing debate over the find, and all humankind. 25,000 first printing.
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9781400060108 | Random House Inc, February 14, 2006, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Sixteen million years ago, an asteroid crashing into Mars sent fragments flying into space and, eons later, one was pulled by the Earth's gravity onto the icy wilderness of Antarctica, where a geologist spotted it.

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Product Description: How old is Earth? How old are the planets, the Moon, meteorites, stars, and the Universe itself? How do scientists know these things? If you’ve ever asked yourself some or all of these questions, then this book is for you. Planet Earth and the other bodies of the Solar System are 4...read more
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9780804749329 | Stanford Univ Pr, June 15, 2004, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: How old is Earth?

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9780804749336 | Stanford Univ Pr, June 15, 2004, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: How old is Earth?

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Product Description: Makes meteorite classification simple Where and when meteor showers occur A straightforward, thorough look at all aspects of meteors and meteorites, including how and where meteors originate, when and where to watch for them, and how to classify, collect, and preserve meteorites...read more
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9780811727556 | Stackpole Books, July 1, 2001, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Makes meteorite classification simple Where and when meteor showers occur A straightforward, thorough look at all aspects of meteors and meteorites, including how and where meteors originate, when and where to watch for them, and how to classify, collect, and preserve meteorites.

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9780613918350 | Turtleback Books, June 1, 2003, cover price $28.15 | About this edition: Makes meteorite classification simple Where and when meteor showers occur A straightforward, thorough look at all aspects of meteors and meteorites, including how and where meteors originate, when and where to watch for them, and how to classify, collect, and preserve meteorites.

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An examination of meteorites, asteroids, and comets looks at the origin of the solar system, the formation of Earth, meteorite impacts throughout history and their effects, cosmic collisions, and extinction of species.
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9780816048731 | Facts on File, December 1, 2002, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: An examination of meteorites, asteroids, and comets looks at the origin of the solar system, the formation of Earth, meteorite impacts throughout history and their effects, cosmic collisions, and extinction of species.

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9780816050765 | Facts on File, February 1, 2003, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An examination of meteorites, asteroids, and comets looks at the origin of the solar system, the formation of Earth, meteorite impacts throughout history and their effects, cosmic collisions, and extinction of species.

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Describes the formation of meteorites, their recovery, and the information they hold.
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9781588340214 | Smithsonian Inst Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Describes the formation of meteorites, their recovery, and the information they hold.
9780868404905 | New South Wales Univ Pr Ltd, February 1, 2002, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Meteorites, the fragments of space debris that survive their fall to Earth, have much to tell us.

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Product Description: In recent years, meteorites have caught the imagination of scientist and collector alike. An army of people are now actively searching for them in the hot and cold deserts of Earth. Fascinating extraterrestrial rocks in meteorites are our only contact with materials from beyond the Earth-Moon system...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521621434 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 11, 2002, cover price $69.00 | About this edition: In recent years, meteorites have caught the imagination of scientist and collector alike.

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Readers can join the author, who was invited by the Russian Academy of Sciences to take part in its annual Tunguska Expedition to investigate the largest metorite impact in recorded history and who travelled the world in search of other meteorite impact sites, on a fascinating adventure to the most significant meteor sites of the untamed and desolate Russian interior. (view table of contents)
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9780071372244 | McGraw-Hill, February 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Readers can join the author, who was invited by the Russian Academy of Sciences to take part in its annual Tunguska Expedition to investigate the largest metorite impact in recorded history and who travelled the world in search of other meteorite impact sites, on a fascinating adventure to the most significant meteor sites of the untamed and desolate Russian interior.

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Product Description: What are meteorites? Where do they come from? Are they a threat? What are they made of? How common are they? As centuries have passed, our knowledge of these extraterrestrial objects has advanced immensely, and today, the scientific study of meteorites provides a wealth of information about the solar system...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle (other contributor), Monica Rotaru (editor) and Brigitte Zanda (editor)
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9780521799409 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 13, 2001, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: What are meteorites?

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Product Description: `his fifth edition of Catalogue of Meteorites will, like previous editions, be the essential reference volume for all those with an informed interest in meteorites. It is the definitive descriptive list of the British Natural History Museum, which maintains the offical world database of all known meteorite falls and finds...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521663038 | 5 sub edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 2000), cover price $350.00 | About this edition: `his fifth edition of Catalogue of Meteorites will, like previous editions, be the essential reference volume for all those with an informed interest in meteorites.

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Product Description: Meteorites and Their Parent Planets provides an engrossing overview of a highly interdisciplinary field--the study of extraterrestrial materials. The second edition of this successful book has been thoroughly revised, and describes the nature of meteorites, where they come from, and how they get to Earth...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521583039 | 2 sub edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1999), cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Meteorites and Their Parent Planets provides an engrossing overview of a highly interdisciplinary field--the study of extraterrestrial materials.

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9780521587518 | 2 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1999), cover price $73.00 | About this edition: Meteorites and Their Parent Planets provides an engrossing overview of a highly interdisciplinary field--the study of extraterrestrial materials.

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Product Description: What's the likelihood of the impact on earth of debris from outer space? Even near misses can change our climate, while a major impact could be catastrophic, equivalent to that which caused the disappearance of the dinosaurs and the rise of mammalian mastery of the planet...read more
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9780713727425 | Blandford Pr, March 1, 1999, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: What's the likelihood of the impact on earth of debris from outer space?

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Product Description: The Earth is bombarded constantly by material from space. Evidence of this bombardment comes both from craters that may form prominent features in the landscape, and samples of the impactors curated as meteorites. Since the impact of extraterrestrial material on Earth has the potential to be of more than local significance, and can lead to effects traceable in both the geological and biological record, it is important to obtain an accurate picture of the extent of bombardment...read more
By M. M. Grady (editor), Robert Hutchison (editor), G. J. H. McCall (editor) and David A. Rothery (editor)
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9781862390171 | Geological Society Pub House, September 1, 1998, cover price $200.00 | About this edition: The Earth is bombarded constantly by material from space.

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9780939950461 | Mineralogical Society of Amer, June 1, 1998, cover price $40.00

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