Which are the meteorites? From where they come? They are a threat? Of what they are done? So common what are? Since centuries are past, our knowledge of these extraterrestrial objects has advanced enormously, and nowadays, the scientific study of meteorites provides a great amount of information on the Solar System. The meteorites reveal tracks on some of the great scientific enigmas: • the origin of the Earth life • the massive extinction of species • the nature and composition of asteroids • The conditions during the formation of the Solar System • the star dust that died long before our Sun formed. Writing by a team of experts, meteorites is an accessible guide and completes that it counts with more than two hundred photographies to all color, diagrams and graphs. It does not look for more than a wonderful introduction these powerful, but amazing, objects. Zanda Brigitte is professor associated in the Laboratory of Mineralogy of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, and member associated of the Faculty of Postgraduate of the University of Rutgers. As a result of his doctorate in Geochemistry, it has written many articles in Meteoritics and Planetary Science and other magazines, and is member of the Committee of Nomenclature of the Society of the Meteoritical. Mónica Rotaru is Head of Department of Sciences of the Earth in the Palais of the Découverte in Paris, where it organizes scientific exhibitions. After its doctorate in geochemistry, the investigation in written climatology and documentary of science television has been carried out.

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