The Net Advance of Physics RETRO:
METEORS and METEORITES

METEORITICS in the Long Nineteenth Century.

Most material in Net Advance Retro is very old. It may be obsolete or incorrect. For more recent technical information, please consult the Meteoritics page at the regular Net Advance site.

• General:
  • Strange Doings in the Sky, 1864 by Norman Hugh Redington [Net Advance Retro, 2012/12]
  • The Sky Falls on Benares by Norman Hugh Redington [Net Advance Retro, 2013/02]

  • Meteors and Meteorites: An Historic Archive Anonymous but excellent site.

  • Experiments and Observations on Certain Stony and Metalline Substances, Which at Different Times are Said to Have Fallen on the Earth; Also on Various Kinds of Native Iron by Edward Charles Howard et al. [Phil. Trans. R. S. L. 92, 168 (1802)]
  • Ueber Feuer-Meteore, und über die mit denselben herabgefallenen Massen by Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni [Vienna: Heubner, 1819]
  • Les poussières de l'air by Gaston Tissandier [Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1877] About airborne dust, including the possibility that some is of extraterrestrial origin.

• General: Observational Methods:
  • The Challis 'Meteorscope' by Alastair McBeath [WGN 32, 141 (2004)] A device for measuring the position of meteors in the sky.

• Re: EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE:
  • Fossils from Space! by Norman Hugh Redington [Net Advance Retro, 2012/11]
  • Strange Doings in the Sky, 1864 by Norman Hugh Redington [Net Advance Retro, 2012/12]

THE NET ADVANCE OF PHYSICS --- Retro