METEORITES

FARRINGTON, O. C. “A Catalogue of the Meteorites of North America to

January 1, 1909,” _Memoirs, National Academy of Sciences_, Vol. 13

(1915). Contains fascinating accounts of the phenomena connected with

meteorite falls, interspersed with lengthy technical chemical and

microscopic studies of meteorites.

FARRINGTON, O. C. _Meteorites_ [published by the author], Chicago, 1915.

The classic American work on meteorites. The first half of the book is

popular; the last half is technical.

HEY, M. H. and PRIOR, G. T. _Catalogue of Meteorites_, William Clowes &

Sons, London, 1953. An exhaustive catalog of all recognized and also,

unfortunately, of many doubtful meteorite falls and finds, from the

beginning of the historical record up to December 1952.

LAPAZ, LINCOLN. “The Achondritic Shower of February 18, 1948,”

_Publications, Astronomical Society of the Pacific_, Vol. 61 (1949), pp.

63-73.

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.