[meteorite-list] Scientific book on meteorites

From: Mike Jensen <meteoriteplaya_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:53:20 -0600
Message-ID: <6f9da8300708221453w1e49412ew32ae5a940ea4fa91_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi Alex
There is no update to Planetary Materials but there is comparable
volume. The book that would come closest to what you are looking for
was produced in 2004 and titled "Meteorites Comets and Planets" edited
by Andrew M Davis. It was volume 1 of a 10 volume set "Treatise on
Geochemistry" that was produced in 2003. At the time you had to by the
whole set in hard back for something like $3000!. Fortunately volume 1
was reprinted in 2005 as a soft cover for $90. I sell it for $80.
Here is the write up from the publishers website
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/706698/description#description

Mike

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On 8/22/07, Alexander Seidel <gsac at gmx.net> wrote:
> One of the more advanced books on meteorites, providing a good general
> overview and specific insights into different classes of meteorites,
> (..even for the interested layman, and a non-professional like me),
> uses to be:
>
>       Reviews in Mineralogy Volume 36
>       "PLANETARY MATERIALS"
>       (J. J. Papike, Ed., ISBN 0-939950-46-4)
>       (c) 1998 Mineralogical Society of America
>
> I stumbled upon this work again a short time ago when I was looking for some info about the CR class of meteorites, while at the same time I realized this was issued about nine years ago. Now I wonder whether there has been any "update" work issued ever since, or may be a book somehow comparable to this very remarkable volume. I don?t mean a journal like MAPS, which I am automatically subscribed to as a MetSoc member, but I rather think of a similar comprehensive "overview book" with more up-to-date scientific details.
>
> Any suggestions from the experts? Or do you know of a volume possibly in the pipeline, not yet issued, which may satisfy the needs for an update overview?
>
> Alex
> Berlin/Germany
>
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