Howardites
Explorer Library · Ages 14+

Messengers from Mars, the Moon and Vesta

Meteorites from other worlds and the stories they tell

Corvanelle Publishing

About one meteorite in a hundred is a piece of the Moon or Mars, and one fall in sixteen comes from the asteroid Vesta. This book shows how impacts launch rock from a world, and how trapped Martian air, oxygen isotopes, Apollo samples and the Dawn spacecraft prove where each stone came from. It covers lunar breccias, shergottites, nakhlites, Black Beauty, the ALH 84001 debate, howardites, eucrites and diogenites, angrites, craters and sample-return missions, with worked examples, practice problems, a gazetteer and timelines.

  • 56,320 words
  • About 302 pages
  • 33 chapters
  • Ages 14+
£7.99

Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Meteorites from other worlds
  3. Leaving home: how rocks escape a world
  4. Tracing a meteorite home
  5. The Moon in the laboratory
  6. Lunar meteorites
  7. The Moon's history from its rocks
  8. Martian meteorites: the collection
  9. Shergottites: young lavas from an old planet
  10. Nakhlites and chassignites: a lava pile on Mars
  11. Black Beauty and the ancient crust of Mars
  12. What Martian meteorites reveal about Mars
  13. ALH 84001: the great debate
  14. Phobos and Deimos: the moons of Mars
  15. Vesta: a protoplanet
  16. Eucrites: basalts from Vesta's crust
  17. Diogenites and howardites: Vesta's deep crust and its soil
  18. Dawn at Vesta
  19. Angrites: the oldest lavas
  20. Other melted asteroids
  21. Cores and stony-irons: the insides of shattered worlds
  22. Impact craters on three worlds
  23. Shock: the scars of launch
  24. How worlds grow old
  25. Sample return: bringing worlds home
  26. Linking meteorites to asteroids
  27. Meteorites on other worlds and Earth rocks in space
  28. From find to classification
  29. Gazetteer of notable meteorites
  30. Timelines and reference data
  31. Practice problems with worked answers
  32. Further study
  33. Glossary