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Meteorites / Meteoriten: Witnesses of the Origin of the Solar System / Zeitzeugen Der Entstehung Des Sonnensystems - Rilegato

Brandstatter, Franz; Ferriere, Ludovic; Koberl, Christian

 
9783901753435: Meteorites / Meteoriten: Witnesses of the Origin of the Solar System / Zeitzeugen Der Entstehung Des Sonnensystems

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This book presents the oldest and largest collection of meteorites in the world while recounting their exciting story and that of the scientists who explored them.

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Recensione

'In contrast to some books of this genre, the volume is not only magnificently illustrated, but the bilingual (German and English) text is perfectly and idiomatically correctly written for both languages' --The Journal of Meteorites and Planetary Science

L'autore

Franz Brandstatter is currently director of the Mineralogical-Petrographical Department of the Natural History Museum in Vienna. He has worked as a scientist at the museum since 1982 and became curator of the meteorite collection of the Natural History Museum in Vienna in 2004. Ludovic Ferriere became curator of the rock collection and co-curator of the meteorite collection at the Natural History Museum in Vienna in 2011. He played a major role in the preparations of the new presentation of the meteorite collection in November 2012 and in reorganising the collection to modern standards. Christian Koberl is a professor of impact research and planetary geology at the University of Vienna, Austria, and Director General of the Natural History Museum in Vienna. He is best known for his research on meteorite impact craters.

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