Principles of Meteoritics

Academy of Sciences according altitude appears asteroids ataxites average bolide brecciated bronzite carbonaceous characteristic chemical composition Chirvinskii chondrules Class collection colour composition of meteorites cosmic velocity crystalline chondrite diameter District dust trail Earth Earth's atmosphere ellipse eucrites fell Find formation fracture surfaces fusion crust globules grains grey variety hexahedrites howardite hypersthenic inclusions indicate individual specimens interplanetary space investigation iron meteorites kamacite kg AS USSR Khutor layer main mass mesosiderites metamorphism meteoric bodies meteorite falls meteoritic craters mineral composition Name of meteorite nickel content nickeliferous iron Oblast observed obtained octahedrite Okhansk olivine orbits Pallas Iron pallasites particles phenomena place of fall planet polymictous present region of retardation regmaglypts result RSFSR schreibersite Sikhote-Alin meteorite Sikhote-Alin meteorite shower silicate Staroe stony meteorite shower stony-iron meteorites structured octahedrite studies Synonyms Table taenite tektites terrestrial rocks total weight trajectory troilite Tunguska meteorite types Ukrainian SSR Village weighing Widmanstätten Zavaritskii