ites, their chemical composition and 
ages, meteoritic impacts on Earth, and 
the crater-forming process. Out of the 
Sky (New York: Dover Publications, 
1959) and Our Stone-pelted Planet 
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1933) are 
nontechnical introductions to mete- 
oritics by H.H. Nininger. Yamato Me- 
teorites Collected in Antarctica in 
1969, edited by T. Nagata (Tokyo: 
National Institute of Polar Research, 
1975) is a technical report of the gen- 
eral properties of the meteorites found 
in Antarctica’s Yamato Mountains. 
“Antarctica: A Deep-Freeze Store- 
house for Meteorites,” by W.A. Cas- 
sidy, E. Olsen, and K. Yanai ( Science , 
November 18, 1977, pp. 727-31), ex- 
plores how the arctic environment pre- 
serves meteorites for long periods of 
time under very clean conditions. 
1 W.K. Hartmann’s “Cratering the So- 
lar System” ( Scientific American, 
January 1977, pp. 84-99) analyzes 
craters on different celestial bodies, 
including Earth, and stresses the im- 
portance of cratering as a key to the 
solar system’s history. In “Apollo Ob- 
jects” ( Scientific American, March 
1979, pp. 54-65), G.W. Wetherill dis- 
cusses this class of asteroidlike bodies, 
whose orbits cross the earth’s orbit 
and which may be comet nuclei that 
have lost their volatile components. 
An article by Wetherill, “The Al- 
- lende Meteorite,” appeared in Nat- 
ural History, November 1978, pp. 
102-107. L. Grossman’s “The Most 
Primitive Objects in the Solar Sys- 
tem” ( Scientific American, February 
1978, pp. 30-38) is an essay on car- 
bonaceous chondrites, mixtures of 
minerals that condensed out of the 
solar nebula. In “Did a Supernova 
Trigger the Formation of the Solar 
System?” ( Scientific American, April 
1978, pp. 124-39), D.N. Schramm 
and R.N. Clayton propose that mea- 
sured isotope ratios can be combined 
with other evidence to construct a ten- 
tative account of events that gave rise 
to the solar system. 
Rita Campon 
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