A
achondrites, 126, 163, 178
Adelie Land stone, 78
Adrar iron, 38, 40
aerolites, 178, 179
_see also_, stones, meteoritic
age of meteorites and/or craters, 50, 52
Aggie Creek iron, 76
Ahnighito iron, 36, 128
Algoma meteorite, 75
“Alley Oop’s shillelagh,” 126
altitude, 88, 90, 105, 106
American Meteor Society, 116
American Museum of Natural History, 37
Anderson Township meteorites, 76
Andhâra stone, 147-8
Andromeda, Great Spiral Nebula in, 2
Andromedid shower, 153
anthills, meteorites in, 128
anti-matter, 58-60
Aouelloul crater, 65
appearance and disappearance of meteors, 86, 94, 106
applied science, 166
archeologists, 76, 150
areas of fall, 13-4, 24, 26, 32, 89, 94, 159
armor plate, 167
asteroid belt and orbits, 160-1
astronautics, 110, 168, 170-6
ataxites, 120
Athens, multiple fireball over, 149
australites, 134, 140
azimuth, astronomical, 88
B
Bacubirito iron, 128
Bald Eagle iron, 76
ballistic potential, 171
Baxter stone, 73
Bear Lodge iron, 76
Beddgelert stone, 69-70, 73, 168
bediasites, 136, 137
Belly River stone, 131
Benares meteorite, 156
Bendego iron, 128
Benld stone, 73
Benson, O. O., 179
Bethlehem stone, 73
betyls, 148, 150
Bible, meteorite mentioned in, 147
Bielid shower, 116
“blackfellows’ buttons,” 134
Black Stone of the Kaaba, 147
Boisse, A., 160, 163
bolides, 102, 151
Braunau iron, 73
Brenham craters and meteorites, 52, 65, 66, 78
Box Hole Station crater, 65
Bridgewater meteorite, 75
British Museum, 136, 158
Buddhue, J. D., 179
C
Campo del Cielo craters, 50, 65
Canyon Diablo crater, 44-52, 65, 66, 75, 96, 161, 162, 165, 174
Cape of Good Hope iron, 150
Cape York iron, 36, 37
Carlton meteorite, 75
Casas Grandes iron, 76
charms, meteorites used as, 134, 136
_see also_ sacred meteorites; superstitions
Chesterfield meteorite, 75
Chladni, E. F. F., 155-7
chondrules and chondrites, 124-6, 163
Chubb crater, 52-4
coins depicting meteorites, 148, 150
collection of meteorites in institutions, 20, 32, 34, 37, 38,
40-1, 90, 136, 158
comets, 114, 140, 164
composition of meteor-forming particles, 160-7
composition of meteorites, 118-26, 163, 179
composition of tektites, 136-8
Constantia stone, 74
contraterrene matter, 56, 58-60
convection-current hypothesis, 63-4
cosmic metal mine, 162, 174-6
cosmic rays, 168-71
craters, 17, 18, 20, 42-65, 66, 96, 143, 178, 179
D
Dalgaranga crater, 65
daubreelite, 124
destruction by meteorites, 11, 15, 16-19, 54-7, 68-70, 73-4, 178
diamond-bearing meteorite, 82
direction measures, 23, 24, 86-9, 110
distribution of meteorites, 66-68, 72, 140-3, 159
dog and meteorite, 73
doubters of meteorites, 154-7
“dumbbells,” 135, 136
“dust balls,” 106
dust, meteoritic, 102, 116-7, 179
E
“earth-rings,” 142
earth-trace, 92
eating a meteorite, 82
Einstein, A., 166
elements in meteorites, 118-24
elements in meteor-forming particles, 107
elevation, apparent, 88, 90
_see also_ altitude
“end-point,” 16, 86-91
Enrico Fermi Institute, 168
Ensisheim stone, 152, 154
Eta-Aquarid shower, 114
etching meteorites, 119-123
evaporation, _see_ vaporization
“explosions” of meteors and/or meteorites, 18, 23, 25, 55, 56-60,
63, 86, 92
F
fall, determining area of, 13-14, 24, 26
_see also_ oval-shaped areas of fall
falls, witnessed, 11-22, 23-34, 67, 68-72, 82, 84-95
Farrington, O. C., 178
farmers as meteorite finders, 28, 30, 75-6
Fermi (Enrico) Institute, 168
fireballs, 2, 10, 11-13, 23-5, 54, 69, 84-92, 102, 106, 149, 151
fishermen net meteorite, 78
fixes, 84-90
“flanged buttons,” 135, 136
flight-path, _see_ trajectory
Flows meteorite, 82
footwarmer, meteorite used as, 78
“fossil” meteorites, 144-6
funnels, impact and penetration, 20, 29, 32, 33, 42, 44
Furnas County stone, 29, 31, 32-4, 128, 178
_see also_ Norton County fall
fusion crust, 20, 21, 130, 132, 140, 148, 172
G
Galle, J. G., 92
gamma-ray spectroscopy, 171
Geminid shower, 114
Giacobinid shower, 103, 114, 115
Giacobini-Zinner comet, 114
glass, 138, 145
_see also_ silica-glass; tektites
Glorieta iron, 126
great-circle distributions, 140-3
H
Harvard meteor-photographs, 110-1
Haviland craters, 50, 52, 65, 66
Hayden Planetarium, 129
height, 88, 90, 105, 106
Henbury craters, 50, 65
Hey, M. H., 178
hexahedrites, 119, 120
Holbrook stone shower, 128
Howard, E., 155-7
hunting meteorites, methods of, 84-100
I
“ices,” 106
Illinois Gulch iron, 76
impactites, 143-5
India, Museum of the Geological Survey of, 41
Indians, 41, 76, 150
Institute for Nuclear Studies, 168
Institute of Meteoritics, 5, 24, 26-32, 80, 84, 96, 168, 169, 171
intersecting lines of sight, 84-90
interstellar space, 92, 171
irons, 19, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 48, 73, 75, 76, 78, 82, 99, 116,
118, 120, 121, 128, 129, 133, 143, 150, 155, 163, 167,
174-5, 179
J
Jones, W. B., 179
Jupiter, 102, 142, 160, 161, 164
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
P
Pallas, P. S., 155
pallasites, 122, 155
Pantar stone shower, 74
parallax and parallactic displacement, 105, 106
Paris, Museum of Natural History at, 38, 158
paths of meteors, 84-94, 116
_see also_ earth-trace; orbits; speeds; trajectory; velocity
patterns, structural, 120, 121, 172
Pawnee Indians, 41
Peary, R. E., 36, 37, 128
Perry, S. H., 179
Perseid shower, 114, 115
person struck by meteorite, 70-2, 178, 179
piezoglyphs, 131, 132
Pittsburgh iron, 78, 80
plessite, 124
plotting meteor paths, 116
Plymouth meteorite, 75
Podkamennaya Tunguska fall, 50, 54-60, 65, 102
polishing meteorites, 5, 118, 120, 123
Port Orford stony-iron, 40
Prague Observatory, 2
Prior, G. T., 178
Proctor, R. A., 164
Pultusk fireball, 92
Purdue University, 170
pure science, 166
“purloined” meteorite, 36, 39
Q
Quadrantid shower, 114
R
radiant of meteor shower, 112, 113
radioactivities, 5, 60, 133, 138, 168, 170-1
Rafrüti iron, 78
rainfall, connected with meteor
showers, 117
random distribution, 62
ray-craters, 60-4
recoveries of meteorites, 14-22, 24, 26-8, 31, 33, 35, 75-82,
84-100
Red River iron, 41
re-entry, 172, 173
reports, eyewitness, 23, 24, 84, 86, 90, 92, 94-5
reversed matter, 56, 58-60
Richland iron, 75
Rigel, 92
rocketry, 110, 174-6
Rojansky, V., 58
S
sacred meteorites, 147-50
_see also_ superstitions
San Emigdio stone, 80
satellites, man-made, 172
Saturn’s rings, 142
sawing meteorites, 81, 167-9
Schiaparelli, G. V., 177
Schmidt, J. F. J., 149
schreibersite, 124
Scottsville iron, 76
Seeläsgen iron, 75
Shakespeare, meteors mentioned by, 152
shale balls, 48, 133
shapes of meteorites, 18, 32, 126-8, 134-7, 140, 172
Shirihagi iron, 150
“shooting stars,” 104
showers, meteor, 103, 111, 112-116, 117, 152, 153
showers, meteorite, 73, 74, 128, 157, 158, 159
Siena fall, 156
Sikhote-Alin fall, see Ussuri
silica-glass, 50, 54, 143
_see also_ glass; tektites
silicate-siderites, 122, 123
Sirius, 92
“skymarks,” 92
smallest meteorites, 48, 128
_see also_ dust, meteoritic
Solar System, 5, 111, 164, 175-6
sounds made by falling meteorites, 11, 12, 24, 25,26, 94-5, 148,
159
space exploration and ships, 5, 168, 170-6
space-probes, 170-1
space mining, 162, 174-6
spectra and spectrograms, meteor, 107
spectroscopy, gamma-ray, 171
speeds, 21, 32, 107, 108, 109, 110-12, 126, 172
Spencer, L. J., 179
stainless steel, 120, 122, 167
stones, meteoritic, 28-34, 35, 70, 71-2, 73-4, 78, 80, 82, 118,
120-4, 128, 130, 131, 132, 133, 148, 156-7, 163
stony-irons, 40-1, 118, 122, 124, 163
strata, effect of impact on, 43, 44-5, 48-51
superstitions about meteors and meteorites, 25, 56, 82, 134, 136,
147-52, 154
swarms, meteorite, 50
swarms, meteor-particle, 111, 112, 114
Swindel, G. W., Jr., 179
“swords from heaven,” 150
Sylacauga stone, 71-2, 74, 179
T
taenite, 124
tektite-obsidian test, 138-9
tektites, 134-146, 160
tests for true meteorites, 130-3
“thumb-prints,” 131, 132
trajectory, 90, 92, 173
tritium, 170
Tucson iron, 128
Tungus, _see_ Podkamennaya Tunguska
twice-found meteorites, 76
Tycho, lunar ray-crater, 61
U
University of California Radiation Laboratory, 58
University of Chicago, 168
University of New Mexico, 24, 30
_see also_ Institute of Meteoritics
University of Nebraska, 30, 80
U. S. National Museum, 40, 158
Ussuri fall, 10, 11-34, 42, 50, 54, 65, 130
V
vaporization, 102, 107, 116, 126, 128, 143, 145, 162, 172, 174
velocity, 107, 108, 109, 171, 179
Venus, 102, 162
Verbeek, R. D. M., 140
Vienna, National History Museum of, 41, 158
volcanic theories, 138, 155, 156, 164
W
Wabar craters, 50, 65, 143, 162
Wasiutynski, J., 63-4, 179
water, meteorites under, 78
waves, air and water, 12, 54-5
weather, effect of meteoritic dust on, 117
weathering of meteorites, 38, 48, 52, 53, 54, 66, 133, 144
weights and weighing of meteorites, 35, 36, 128, 130
White, C. S., 179
Widmanstätten pattern, 120, 121, 122, 158
Whipple, F. L., 177, 179
Willamette iron, 36, 128, 129
Wold Cottage meteorite, 156
Wolf Creek crater, 52, 53, 65, 75, 133
Y
Yale University, 41
young people and meteoritics, 23, 24, 28, 34, 39, 90, 98, 99, 116
_see also_ reports, eyewitness
Z
Zhovtnevy Hutor fall, 82