Chapter 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