Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Discovering the Secrets of the Sun by Rudolf Kippenhahn. Protostars and Planets III (eds. E. Levy, J. I. Lunine and M. S. Matthews). Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles and Momentous Discoveries by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne. WinMetCat (V. 1.0) Electronic Catalogue of Meteorites and Meteorite Craters by B. Booz, B. Pauli, and R. W. Bühler. Swiss Meteorite Laboratory, P. O. Box 126, CH-8750, Glarus, Switzerland, 1994, sfr 490 (update: sfr 90). MetBase (V. 1.0), Meteorite Data Retrieval Program by J. Koblitz Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 1993: Proceedings of the 160th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union (eds. A. Milani, M. Di Martino and A. Cellino).     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Rocks from Space: Meteorites and Meteorite Hunters by O. R. Norton Geochemical Reference Material Compositions by P. J. Potts, A. G. Tindle and P. C. Webb Crystallography in Modern Chemistry: A Resource Book of Crystal Structures by Thomas C. W. Mak and Gong-Du Zhou Stardust to Planets: A Geological Tour of the Solar System by H. Y. McSween     

Books and Multimedia Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Shoemaker by Levy: The Man who Made an Impact by David H. Levy Impact Stratigraphy: The Italian Record by Alessandro Montanari and Christian Koeberl The Odessa Meteorite Craters and Their Geological Implications by Glen L. Evans and Charles E. Mear Mapping and Naming the Moon: A History of Lunar Cartography and Nomenclature by Ewen A. Whitaker Impacts and the Early Earth edited by Iain Gilmour and Christian Koeberl     

Book and Multimedia Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Afterglow of Creation: From the Fireball to the Discovery of Cosmic Ripples by Marcus Chown The Doomsday Asteroid Meteorite Craters by Kathleen Mark     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Meteorite and Tektite Collector's Handbook by Philip M. Bagnall Comets, Asteroids, and Meteorites by the editors of Time-Life Books     

Books and Multimedia Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: After the First Three Minutes Theory of Thermoluminescence and Related Phenomena by Reuven Chen and Stephen W. S. McKeever. Impakt—Gefahr aus dem All: Das Ende der Zivilisation by Christian Koeberl. Traces of Catastrophe: A Handbook of Shock-Metamorphic Effects in Terrestrial Meteorite Impact Structures by Bevan M. French. The New Solar System, Fourth Edition edited by J. Kelly Beatty, Carolyn Collins Peterson, and Andrew Chaikin.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Port Orford, Oregon, Meteorite Mystery by Roy S. Clarke, Jr. Exploring Planetary Worlds by David Morrison.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Meteorite Craters and Impact Structures of the Earth by Paul W. Hodge Hunting for Stars by Michel Maurette Radiation and Radioactivity on Earth and Beyond , Second Edition, by Ivan G. Draganic, Zorica D. Draganic, and Jean-Pierre Adloff     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Meteorites and Their Parent Planets by Harry Y. McSween, Jr. Meteorite Craters by Kathleen Mark. Coon Mountain Controversies. Meteor Impact and the Development of the Impact Theory by William Graves Hoyt. The Tucson Meteorites by Richard R. Willey.     

Books and Multimedia Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Exploring Meteorite Mysteries: A Teacher's Guide with Activities for Earth and Space Science by Marilyn Lindstrom, Jaclyn Allen, Allan Treiman, Carl Allen, and Anita Dodson. Natural Catastrophes During Bronze Age Civilisations: Archeological, Geological, Astronomical and Cultural Perspectives edited by Benny J. Peiser, Trevor Palmer, and Mark E. Bailey. Meteors and Meteorites: An Historic Archive of Articles, Books and Catalogues, Vol. I (cd-rom ). Compiled and edited by Eric Hutton, 1998. The Cosmic Travelers Series (three videotape set).     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Introduction to Chinese Meteorite Study by Daode Wang et al. An Introduction to the Rock-forming Minerals , 2nd Edition by W. A. Deer, R. A. Howie and J. Zussman. Longman Scientific & Technical with John Wiley & Sons, 1993, 696 pp., $39.95 (ISBN 0–582–30094–0). Atlas of Rock-forming Minerals in Thin Section by W. S. MacKenzie and C. Guilford. Manual of Mineralogy , 21st Edition by C. Klein and C. S. Hurlbut, Jr. To a Rocky Moon: A Geologist's History of Lunar Exploration by Don E. Wilhelms. Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Microanalysis by Robert Edward Lee.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Meteorite, Urmaterie aus dem interplanetaren Raum by Rolf W. Bühler, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, Boston, Berlin, 1988, 192 pp. Kleine Meteoritenkunde by F. Heide. 3rd, totally revised edition by F. Wlotzka Meteorites and the Early Solar System edited by John F. Kerridge and Mildred S. Matthews.     

Further classification of ordinary chondrites from the Monnig Collection

Abstract— Four ordinary chondrites from the Oscar Monnig Meteorite Collection were classified into compositional groups, petrologic types, and shock stages: Wray (b), Colorado, L5S2; Round Top (a), Texas, L5S3; Round Top (b), Texas, H4S3; Hassayampa, Arizona, H4S3.     

Organic material from Phoebe to Iapetus

It is suggested that only the outermost layers of Phoebe's crust are carbonized by cosmic protons. Meteorite impact on Phoebe leads to the ejection of materials which coming from deeper layers are different in color than the carbonized ones on the surface. The average material coming at Iapetus from Phoebe has then different spectral properties than that on the surface of Phoebe.     

NEUTRON DIFFRACTION STUDY OF MUNGINDI IRON NICKEL METEORITE

The Mungindi Iron Nickel Meteorite was investigated by neutron diffraction. All layers of the γ-phase (separated from each other by α-phase bars) form, from the crystallographic point of view, the same, big single crystal. The perfection of this single crystal is very high. In the kamacite phase each individual “single crystal” is broken into a group of crystals.     

THE SEMINOLE,GAINES CO., TEXAS,METEORITE

The Seminole Meteorite was found near Seminole, Texas in 1961 and recognized as a meteorite in 1963. Two fragments weighing a total of 41.1 kg were recovered. Analyses showed these to be fragments of a single black olivine-bronzite, or H4-group chondrite, showing brecciation and a moderate number of individual chondrules     

Fe and O isotope composition of meteorite fusion crusts: Possible natural analogues to chondrule formation?

Meteorite fusion crust formation is a brief event in a high‐temperature (2000–12,000 K) and high‐pressure (2–5 MPa) regime. We studied fusion crusts and bulk samples of 10 ordinary chondrite falls and 10 ordinary chondrite finds. The fusion crusts show a typical layering and most contain vesicles. All fusion crusts are enriched in heavy Fe isotopes, with δ⁵⁶Fe values up to +0.35‰ relative to the solar system mean. On average, the δ⁵⁶Fe of fusion crusts from finds is +0.23‰, which is 0.08‰ higher than the average from falls (+0.15‰). Higher δ⁵⁶Fe in fusion crusts of finds correlate with bulk chondrite enrichments in mobile elements such as Ba and Sr. The δ⁵⁶Fe signature of meteorite fusion crusts was produced by two processes (1) evaporation during atmospheric entry and (2) terrestrial weathering. Fusion crusts have either the same or higher δ¹⁸O (0.9–1.5‰) than their host chondrites, and the same is true for Δ¹⁷O. The differences in bulk chondrite and fusion crust oxygen isotope composition are explained by exchange of oxygen between the molten surface of the meteorites with the atmosphere and weathering. Meteorite fusion crust formation is qualitatively similar to conditions of chondrule formation. Therefore, fusion crusts may, at least to some extent, serve as a natural analogue to chondrule formation processes. Meteorite fusion crust and chondrules exhibit a similar extent of Fe isotope fractionation, supporting the idea that the Fe isotope signature of chondrules was established in a high‐pressure environment that prevented large isotope fractionations. The exchange of O between a chondrule melt and an ¹⁶O‐poor nebula as the cause for the observed nonmass dependent O isotope compositions in chondrules is supported by the same process, although to a much lower extent, in meteorite fusion crusts.     

Classification of four ordinary chondrites from the Monnig Meteorite Collection

Abstract— We classified four ordinary chondrites from the Monnig Meteorite Collection into compositional groups, petrologic types and shock stages, based on optical microscopy in transmitted and reflected light, and electron microprobe and modal analyses. These meteorites are Allen, Texas, H4(S2); May Day, Kansas, H4(S2); Pony Creek, Texas, H4(S3); and Springer, Oklahoma, H5(S3).     

The distribution of sulfur in lunar rocks and its relationship to carbon content

A summary of total sulfur abundances representative of the Apollo Missions is presented. Lunar crystalline rocks range from 0 to 3100μg S g⁻¹. Lunar soils range from 310 to 1300μg S g⁻¹. Rock mixing models evaluate the distribution of sulfur and define indigenous rock components and extralunar contributions of sulfur in lunar soils. Extralunar sulfur shows a positive correlation with a CC-1 like meteoritic component and solar wind derived total carbon content in the Apollo 16 and 17 lunar soils. Presented at the 25th International Geological Congress, Sydney, Australia, Section 15, Planetology. Contribution No. 105 from the Center for Meteorite Studies.