Henbury craters & meteorites
Their discovery, history and study
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Beschreibung
Since the discovery of the Henbury craters in the early years of the twentieth century, this is the first book that has appeared in more than 80 years that is entirely devoted to the story of these dramatic scars inflicted upon the arid outback of Australia by a massive invader from the icy depths of space.
This book of 166 pages presents the summary of 80 years of fieldwork and lab research brought together in a single, readable volume. Lavishly illustrated with over 120 photos, maps, documents and diagrams, most of them derived from original sources and that have never before been published. This is a publication that no meteorite enthusiast will want to miss.
In Henbury craters & meteorites, the authors provide an extended data set on the distribution of meteoritic material at Henbury craters and compare recent discoveries on the mechanics of hypervelocity impacts with evidence collected over 80 years of research at the Henbury meteorite craters. In their conclusion, the authors suggest a new hypothesis for the fragmentation and incident direction of the crater forming projectiles on the basis of a more complete set of data compared with previous models. Their surprising results turn the common impact scenarios for the Henbury bolide upside down.
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