Primitive Meteorites and Asteroids
Primitive Meteorites and Asteroids

Author: Neyda M. Abreu

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2018-07-14

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 0128133260

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Primitive Meteorites and Asteroids: Physical, Chemical, and Spectroscopic Observations Paving the Way to Exploration covers the physical, chemical and spectroscopic aspects of asteroids, providing important data and research on carbonaceous chondrites and primitive meteorites. This information is crucial to the success of missions to parent bodies, thus contributing to an understanding of the early solar system. The book offers an interdisciplinary perspective relevant to many fields of planetary science, as well as cosmochemistry, planetary astronomy, astrobiology, geology and space engineering. Including contributions from planetary and missions scientists worldwide, the book collects the fundamental knowledge and cutting-edge research on carbonaceous chondrites and their parent bodies into one accessible resource, thus contributing to the future of space exploration. - Presents the most current data and information on the mission-relevant characteristics of primitive asteroids - Addresses the physical, chemical and spectral characteristics of carbonaceous chondritic meteorites and the bearings on successful exploration of their parent asteroids - Includes chapters on geotechnical properties and resource extraction

Meteorites and the Early Solar System II
Meteorites and the Early Solar System II

Author: Dante S. Lauretta

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2006-07

Total Pages: 992

ISBN-13: 9780816525621

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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. The composition, chemistry, and mineralogy of primitive meteorites collectively provide evidence for a wide variety of chemical and physical processes. This book synthesizes our current understanding of the early solar system, summarizing information about processes that occurred before its formation. It will be valuable as a textbook for graduate education in planetary science and as a reference for meteoriticists and researchers in allied fields worldwide.

Asteroids
Asteroids

Author: Thomas H. Burbine

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 1107096847

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An overview of asteroid science, summarising the astronomical and geological characteristics of asteroids, for students and researchers.

Meteorite Mineralogy
Meteorite Mineralogy

Author: Alan E. Rubin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-08-05

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 1108484522

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A comprehensive summary of the mineralogy of all meteorite groups and the origin of their minerals.

Remote Compositional Analysis
Remote Compositional Analysis

Author: Janice L. Bishop

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-11-28

Total Pages: 655

ISBN-13: 110718620X

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Comprehensive overview of the spectroscopic, mineralogical, and geochemical techniques used in planetary remote sensing.

Highly Siderophile and Strongly Chalcophile Elements in High-Temperature Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry
Highly Siderophile and Strongly Chalcophile Elements in High-Temperature Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry

Author: Jason Harvey

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2016-03-07

Total Pages: 798

ISBN-13: 1501502093

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Highly Siderophile and Strongly Chalcophile Elements in High Temperature Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, Volume 81 This RiMG (Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry) volume investigates the application of highly siderophile (HSE) and strongly chalcophile elements. This volume has its origin in a short course sponsored by the Mineralogical Society of America and the Geochemical Society held in San Diego, California on the 11th and 12th December 2015, ahead of the American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting, which featured a session with the same title. Topics in this volume include: analytical methods and data quality experimental constraints applied to understanding HSE partitioning nucleosynthetic variations of siderophile and chalcophile elements HSE in the Earth, Moon, Mars and asteroidal bodies HSE and chalcophile elements in both cratonic and non-cratonic mantle, encompassing both sub-continental and sub-oceanic lithosphere the importance of the HSE for studying volcanic and magmatic processes, and an appraisal of the importance of magmatic HSE ore formation in Earth’s crust. Highly siderophile and strongly chalcophile elements comprise Re, Os, Ir, Ru, Pt, Rh, Pd, Au, Te, Se and S and are defined by their strong partitioning into the metallic phase, but will also strongly partition into sulfide phases, in the absence of metal. The chemical properties of the HSE mean that they are excellent tracers of key processes in high temperature geochemistry and cosmochemistry, having applications in virtually all areas of earth science. A key aspect of the HSE is that three long-lived, geologically useful decay systems exist with the HSE as parent (107Pd-107Ag), or parent-daughter isotopes (187Re-187Os and 190Pt-186Os). The material in this book is accessible for graduate students, researchers, and professionals with interests in the geochemistry and cosmochemistry of these elements, geochronology, magmatic ore bodies and the petrogenesis of platinum-group minerals.

Planetesimals
Planetesimals

Author: Linda T. Elkins-Tanton

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-01-26

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1107118484

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16.3 Planetesimals and Planetary Debris Disks

Thunderstones and Shooting Stars
Thunderstones and Shooting Stars

Author: Robert T. Dodd

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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An account that traces the origin and characteristics of meteorites and what they can tell us about outer space.

Asteroids IV
Asteroids IV

Author: Patrick Michel

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2015-12-31

Total Pages: 946

ISBN-13: 0816532133

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"More than forty chapters detail our current astronomical, compositional, geological, and geophysical knowledge of asteroids, as well as their unique physical processes and interrelationships with comets and meteorites"--Provided by publisher.

Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites
Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites

Author: O. Richard Norton

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-05-25

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1848001576

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What is unique about Richard Norton's book is that it is both a field guide to observing meteors, and also a field guide to locating, preparing and analysing meteorites. In addition to giving the reader information about observing techniques for meteors, this book also provides a fully detailed account of the types of meteorites, how and where to find them, how to prepare and analyse them. The book provides everything the amateur astronomer (or geologist!) needs to know about meteors and meteorites. It is thus the only complete book on the subject available at present.