“In most cases, data collected with the meteorograph is recovered only when the instrument is jettisoned from the balloon or airplane carrying it.”
“The data could not be evaluated until after the observation was completed and the kite and meteorograph were brought back to the ground.”
“However, the records of temperature and humidity could not be examined until the meteorograph had been recovered, and they were not therefore an immediate aid for forecasting.”
“Against this background, the German physicist Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni began the science of meteoritics in 1794, when he defended the trustworthiness of accounts of falls.”
“All are valuable on Earth because they are rare – a consequence of how the planet formed, said Sara Russell, head of meteoritics at the Natural History Museum.”
“Notkin has written more than 150 published articles on meteoritics, paleontology, adventure travel, history, and the arts, and is the author of three books.”
“Microscopic inspection of mineral textures and electron microprobe measurements of 20 tiny fragments show that they must be from a meteorite, says the group, which includes meteoriticist Michail Petaev of Harvard University.”
“To examine a meteorite, a meteoriticist must look at the rock's internal matrix by cutting away a piece.”
“Meteoriticist Edward Anders, retired from the University of Chicago in Illinois, recalls an earlier episode of intriguingly lifelike objects in a meteorite.”