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The precious gift of meteorites and meteorite impact processes / Aly A. Barakat.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barakat, Aly A., author.
- Series:
- Space science, exploration and policies series.
- Space science, exploration and policies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Meteorites.
- Meteorites, Iron.
- Meteorite craters.
- Collisions (Astrophysics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (181 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publishers, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Intends to provide readers an open invitation to liberate themselves and leave aside caution from meteorites threat, which is widely spread over media to survey one of the brightest sides of meteorites, and their offering to humans from the economic point of view.
- Contents:
- Meteorites
- Types of meteorites
- Meteorite impacts
- Threat of meteorites between observation and exaggeration
- Meteorites veneration
- Iron : the celebrated offer of meteorites
- Celestial gems
- Funds from heaven
- Gems of meteorite impacts
- Mining asteroid footprints
- National monuments.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-62100-970-X
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