Meteorites and Their Parent Planets
Meteorites and Their Parent Planets
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10.1029/88eo00188
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1988-05
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C. Goodrich
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哈利·Y·麦克斯温 (Harry Y. McSween) 的最新著作《陨石及其母行星》主要不是作为流星学专业研究人员的教科书或技术参考。已经有几本与此相关的最新书籍（《陨石：岩石学化学合成》，R. T. Dodd 着，剑桥大学出版社，伦敦，1981 年；《陨石：早期太阳系历史记录》，J. T. Wasson、W. H. Freeman 着，加利福尼亚州旧金山，1985 年；《陨石与早期太阳系》，J. F. Kerridge 和 M. Matthews 编辑，亚利桑那大学）出版社，图森，出版中，1988 年）。相反，它的目的是介绍陨石学领域以及太阳系形成和演化的研究，并且面向广泛的科学家和非科学家。麦克斯温承担了一项艰巨的任务。陨石学中的许多问题需要综合来自天体力学、天体物理学、陨石坑动力学、分光光度测定、火成岩岩石学和同位素地球化学等多样化和高度专业化的研究领域的信息和推理。因此，这些问题对于学生，甚至高级研究人员来说通常很难理解，并且很少被非科学家所重视。然而，麦克斯温非常成功地以任何好奇的、聪明的人都能理解的方式呈现了这个复杂的主题。
Harry Y. McSween's latest book, Meteorites and Their Parent Planets, is not intended primarily as a textbook or a technical reference for the dedicated researcher in meteoritics. Several up-to-date books along these lines already exist (Meteorites: A Petrologic-Chemical Synthesis, by R. T. Dodd, Cambridge University Press, London, 1981; Meteorites: Their Record of Early Solar System History, by J. T. Wasson, W. H. Freeman, San Francisco, Calif., 1985; Meteorites and the Early Solar System, edited by J. F. Kerridge and M. Matthews, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, in press, 1988). Rather, it is intended as an introduction of the field of meteoritics and the study of the formation and evolution of the Solar System, and it is aimed at a broad spectrum of scientists and nonscientists. McSween has undertaken a difficult task. Many problems in meteoritics require synthesis of information and lines of reasoning from such diverse and highly specialized areas of study as celestial mechanics, astrophysics, cratering dynamics, spectrophotometry, igneous petrology, and isotope geochemistry. Hence these problems are often difficult for the student, or even the advanced researcher, to grasp and are rarely appreciated by the nonscientist. McSween, however, succeeds remarkably well in presenting this complex subject in a way that any curious, intelligent person can understand.