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35 seasons of U.S. Antarctic meteorites (1976-2010) : a pictorial guide to the collection /

The US Antarctic meteorite collection exists due to a cooperative program involving the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Smithsonian Institution. Since 1976, meteorites have been collected by a NSF-funded field team, shipped for cur...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Righter, K. (Kevin), 1965- (Editor), Corrigan, Catherine (Editor), Harvey, Ralph (Ralph P.) (Editor), McCoy, Tim (Timothy J.) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Hoboken, New Jersey : American Geophysical Union ; Wiley, [2015]
Series:Special publication (American Geophysical Union) ; 68.
Subjects:
Meteorites > Catalogs and collections.
Meteorites > Antarctica.
Meteorites > United States.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The origin and early history of the U.S. Antarctic Search for Meteorites Program (ANSMET) / Ursula B. Marvin
  • Fieldwork methods of the .S. Antarctic Search for Meteorites Program / Ralph P. Harvey, John Schutt, and Jim Karner
  • Curation and allocation of samples in the U.S. Antarctic meteorite collection / Kevin Righter, Cecilia E. Satterwhite, Kathleen M. McBride, Catherine M. Corrigan, and Linda C. Welzenbach
  • Pictorial guide to selected meteorites
  • Primitive asteroids : expanding the range of known primitive materials / Michael K. Weisberg and Kevin Righter
  • Achondrites and irons : products of magmatism on strongly heated asteroids / David W. Mittlefehldt and Timothy J. McCoy
  • ANSMET meteorites from the moon / Randy L. Korotev and Ryan A. Zeigler
  • Meteorites from Mars, via Antarctica / Harry Y. McSween Jr., Ralph P. Harvey, and Catherine M. Corrigan
  • Meteorite misfits : fuzzy clues to solar system processes / Timothy J. McCoy
  • Cosmogenic nuclides in Antarctic meteorites / Gregory F. Herzog, Marc W. Caffee, and A.J. Timothy Jull
  • A statistical look at the U.S. Antarctic meteorite collection / Catherine M. Corrigan, Linda C. Welzenbach, Kevin Righter, Kathleen M. McBride, Timothy J. McCoy, Ralph P. Harvey, and Cecilia E. Satterwhite.