Meteorites - Witnesses of the Origin of the Solar System

This book is a rarity among the popular science literature of meteorites and meteorite (impact) craters. It introduces the collection of meteorites of the Natural History Museum of Vienna, which is one of the oldest and largest meteorte collection of the world. People can read about the history, composition, classification, investigation and origin of the meteorites, and meteorite impact craters. A chapter shows the most important impact craters of the world, and introduces us the mechanism of the birthing of the craters in the Solar System. So this book is an overview of all themes connecting to meteorites.

In Deutsch and English (bilingual book).

Chapters:

• History of meteorite science
• The Vienna meteorite collection
• Where do meteorites come from?
• Where and how are the meteorites found?
• What are meteorites made of?
• Classification of meteorites
• Stony meteorites
• Stony-iron meteorites
• Iron meteorites
• Austrian meteorites
• Fossil meteorites
• Mars and martian meteorites
• Moon and lunar meteorites
• Meteorite shower
• Formation of impact craters
• Solar system
• We all are stardust