Rocks from Space: Meteorites and Meteorite Hunters by Richard O Norton

Rocks from Space: Meteorites and Meteorite Hunters by Richard O Norton

This popular guide to cosmic debris introduces the fascinating world of meteorites, astroids, comets, and impact craters. With more than 50 new photographs and updated illustrations, new and expanded appendixes, and some fun cosmic humor, Rocks from Space, 2nd Edition journeys into the last frontier for close-up looks at the latest astronomical discoveries.

Norton, O. Richard: - Since earning a degree in astronomy from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1960, O. Richard Norton has held directorial positions at the Morrison Planetarium, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, the Max C. Fleischmann Planetarium, University of Nevada, Reno, and the Grace H. Flandrau Planetarium and Science Center, University of Arizona, Tucson. He has worked as an optical engineer on the design of optical telescopes at the Tinsley Laboratories, Berkeley, California, and the hemispheric projection system for the Desert Research Institute, University of Nevada, the forerunner of the modern Imax system. In 1977 he founded Science Graphics, a company producing science teaching slides in astronomy, space science, meteorites, geology, paleontology and the history of astronomy, used in the science teaching curricula of over 3,000 colleges and universities in the United States and further afield. His interest in meteoritics extends from his work with Frederick C. Leonard, a renowned early meteoriticist at UCLA. Through the years he has worked to promote the public understanding of science and especially the growing field of meteoritics. He is the author of the best selling book Rocks From Space (1994) and is currently Contributing Editor of the new popular journal Meteorite.

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ISBN 13	9780878423736
ISBN 10	0878423737
Title	Rocks from Space: Meteorites and Meteorite Hunters
Author	Richard O Norton
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Eighth Mountain Press,
Year published	1998-06-15
Number of pages	447
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