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FIGURE 21 A French Southern and Antarctic Territories stamp
illustrating a micrometeorite or cosmic dust particle (left)
collected by melting Antarctic ice cores, the coring drill being at
the right. Representations of meteor trails (of cometary origin)
and a fireball are at the top.
the first edition of this Encyclopedia was published. Pre-
dictions about future developments are very hazardous, but
we can expect future surprises, probably from desert mete-
orites, which seem to include so many peculiar objects. As
has been said in another connection, those who work with
meteorites don’t pray for miracles, they absolutely rely on
them.
Further Reading
Buchwald, V. F. (1975). “Handbook of Iron Meteorites.” Univ.
California Press, Berkeley.
Dick, S. J. (1998). “Life on Other Worlds: The 20th-Century
Extraterrestrial Life Debate.” Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge,
England.
Grady, M. M. (2000). “Catalogue of Meteorites,” 5th edition.
Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, England.
Hewins, R. H., Jones, R. H., and Scott, E. R. D. (eds.) (1996).
“Chondrules and the Protoplanetary Disk.” Cambridge Univ.
Press, Cambridge, England.
Hutchison, R. (2004). “Meteorites, A Petrologic, Chemical and
Isotopic Synthesis.” Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, England.
Kerridge, J. F., and Matthews, M. S. (eds.) (1988). “Meteorites
and the Early Solar System.” Univ. Arizona Press, Tucson.
Papike, J. J. (ed.) (1998). “Planetary Materials.” Mineralogical
Society of America, Washington, D.C.
Porcelli, D. P., Ballentine, C. J., and Wieler, R. (eds.) (2002).
“Noble Gases in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry.” Mineralog-
ical Society of America and Geochemical Society, Washington,
D.C.
Taylor, J., and Martel, L. (1996–present). Planetary Science
Research Discoveries (PSRD). http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu
Wooten, H. A. (2004). The 125 reported interstellar and cir-
cumstellar molecules. National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/∼awootten/allmols.html