THE NET ADVANCE OF PHYSICS

General:

• Meteors and Meteorites from the Nine Planets by Bill Arnett [SEDS]
  Basic facts about meteors with images and links to other sites about meteorites and about impacts; includes links to Mars-related and educational material
• Meteroids and Meteorites by Rosanna L. Hamilton [LANL]
  Definitions of meteor and related terms, images, and a short offline bibliography; includes links to educational materials.
• Meteorites - Messengers from the Past [Natural History Museum, London]
  Brief introduction to meteorites with photo of fusion-crusted meteorite; links to pages with more information and pictures (including pictures of Orgueil meteorite)
• What is a Meteor? by Lars Trygve Heen [Norwegian University of Science and Technology]
  Translation of T.E. Hillestad's discussion of meteors with links to a more detailed discussion and to meteorite resourcs; Norwegian version also available
• Meteors Royal Greenwich Observatory
  Basic facts about meteors and meteorites; no links, no images
• What is a Meteorite? by Paul Sipiera [Planetary Studies Foundation]
  A good overview of the ways meteorites are classified and identified with a short rationale for the study of these objects
• Gallery of Meteorite and Tektite Images The Meteorite Exchange
  Links to images of meteorites, catalogued by type; links go to small image with a few lines of text; small image linked to larger image with no text
• Classification of Meteorites by Michael I. Casper [Meteorites, Inc.]
  Brief general discussions of types of meteorites and the reasons they are classified as they are.

Stony Meteorites:

• Stony Meteorites Michael Higgins [Meteorite and Impact Advisory Committee of the Canadian Space Agency]
  Photographs of and concise paragraphs about several famous meteorites (including Bruderheim and Allende) as well as a discussion of tektites and slag

SNC Meteorites:

• SNC Meteorites by Eric Weisstein [University of Virginia]
  General discussion of shergottite, nakhlite, and chassigny classes of meteorites with a table of the twelve known samples and arguments why and how they came to earth from other planets; good offline and online bibliography including the recent research on the Mars meteorite.

Martian Meteorites:

• On the Question of the Mars Meteorite by Kim Leung [LPI]
  Images and a brief discussion of questions raised by the announcement of possible evidence of life on Mars. Links to other sites.
• Meteorites from Mars! by Eileen Stansbury [NASA]
  Images, table, and brief discussion of the 12 known Martian meteorites. Link to a more detailed discussion and to a discussion of the life on Mars question.

Meteorites and Antarctica:

• Antarctic Meteorite Location and Mapping Project [NASA]
  Links to texts about the places scientists search for meteorites in Antarctica; inside these explanations are links to pictures of the places. Below the list of links is a history of the search for meteorites on the continent.
• Antarctic Meteorites Meteorite and Impact Advisory Committee of the Canadian Space Agency
  Images, map, and a brief explanation of meteorite-hunting on Antarctica
• Meteorites from Antarctica Johnson Space Center
  Links to discussion of the history of the search for meteorites on Antarctica (one short and one long) and the ``Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter.''

Meteorites and Canada:

• Introduction to Meteorites Meteorite and Impact Advisory Committee of the Canadian Space Agency
  Map of Canadian meteorite falls and finds with information on the classification of meteorites
• The St. Robert Meteorite, Québec Meteorite and Impact Advisory Committee of the Canadian Space Agency
  Links to accounts, personal and scientfic, of this 1994 find; one is in French

Meteorites in History:

• Introduction to MIAC's slide set Meteorite and Impact Advisory Committee of the Canadian Space Agency
  Images and discussions of the meteorite at Ensisheim, a meteorite at Ephesus, and ancient coins that depict meteors.

Terrestrial Impact Craters:

• Terrestrial Impact Craters by Calvin J. Hamilton [LANL]
  Introductory discussion of the types of craters, images of craters around the world, and a brief offline bibliography; links to a table of known craters, educational material, and to a discussion of a possible crater
• Terrestrial Impact Crater List by Calvin J. Hamilton [LANL]
  Alphabetical list of known impact craters which provides location in latitude and longitude; diameter; and age
• Terrestrial Impact Craters by Christian Koeberl and Virgil Sharpton [LPI]
  Good introduction to craters and the effects of geological processes on them; figures of crater types; a global map of impact sites; images of craters on the moon, Earth, Venus, and Mars; long offline bibliography
• North America Terrestrial Impact Structures Regional Geophysics Section [Natural Resources, Canada]
  Large relief map of North America with impact craters marked; links to information about each sites (some images available) as well as links to similar maps for all inhabited continents and an informative alphabetical list of terrestrial impact craters. French version also available
• Impact Craters on Earth Meteorite and Impact Advisory Committee of the Canadian Space Agency
  A few images of impact craters and a map of crater in Canada; the section on impact features on rocks is a concise general survey.

Related Topic:
Meteorites and Comets: Organic Matter and Exobiological Hypotheses, 1834-Present by N. Redington and K.R. Keck

To contribute to this page, write Norman Redington, redingtn@mit.edu