meteoritics
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Etymology
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- (astronomy, mineralogy, geochemistry, cosmochemistry) The science that deals with meteors, meteorites, and meteoroids.
- 1999, Harry Y. McSween, Jr., Meteorites and Their Parent Planets, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 7:
- From the beginning of the nineteenth century forward, meteoritics progressed steadily to an exacting and highly interdisciplinary field.
- 2000, Monica M. Grady, Catalogue of Meteorites, 5th edition, Cambridge University Press, page 1:
- Following the precedents set in previous editions of the Catalogue of Meteorites, it is not the intention of this Introduction to discuss the science of meteoritics, but simply to provide a summary of the nomenclature and classification of meteorites and the system of entries adopted.
- 2004, John S. Lewis, Physics and Chemistry of the Solar System, 2nd edition, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 350:
- Meteoritics, the laboratory study of meteorites, was regarded as our best window on events at the time of the origin of the planets even before their age could be measured. […] Recently, discoveries in both meteoritics and asteroid research have brought forward several interesting connections with comets, and even the Voyager revelation of the nature of ice-rich satellites has influenced our understanding of meteorite origins.
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[edit]science of meteors, meteorites and meteoroids
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Further reading
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Glossary of meteoritics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
