Author: National Research Council (U.S.), Committee on Nuclear Science
Title: Problems Related to Interplanetary Matter : Proceedings of an Informal Congress, Highland Park, Illinois, June 20-22, 1960
Description: Washington, D.C. National Academy of Sciences, 1961. orig. wrappers. 25x17cm, viii,105 pp. Series: National Research Council (U.S.). Publication nr. 845.. Some wear. Name on cover. Small tear to spine. Cortner bump. VG. ¶ Contains 20 papers. Includes: The origin of the solar system, Comments on the time dependence of nucleo-synthesis;: Xenon in stone meteorites; Primordial argon and neon in stone meteorites; Cosmic ray ages of iron meteorites; Argon-17, Argon-39 and tritium, in recent meteorite falls; The distribution of rare gases in iron meteorites; Cosmic ray production of radioactive nuclides in iron meteorites; Cosmogenic nuclides in the Hamlet meteorite; The high energy cosmic ray spectrum; Lower energy cosmic rays and the solar cycle; On the geophysical and geonuclear significance of the earth's radiation belts; Micrometeorite studies from earth satellites; Exploration of the moon & the planets; Diamonds in meteorites; Heavy- element activation analyses of meteorites; Strontium and rubidium in stone meteorites; Secular changes in the concentrations of atmospheric radiocarbon; Radium-uranium age determination on marine shells; Oxygen isotope measurements in glacial ice.

Keywords: Meteoritics, Meteorites, Astronomy, Cosmic Physics, Radioactive, Substances, Astrophysics, ,