With more than 89,000 entries, the Bibliography of Meteorites, Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences contains the most comprehensive collection of keyword-indexed references to literature on meteoritics and related subjects published between 1492 and today.
The following subjects are considered in the bibliography:
Meteorites
Meteors
Interplanetary dust (IDPs) and micrometeorites
Tektites and impactites
Impact cratering, craters and astroblemes
Lunar geology and geophysics
Apollo sample studies
Asteroids
Mars and martian geology
Mercur and Venus
Exobiology
Cosmochemistry
Origin and evolution of the solar system
Publications types considered in the bibliography are:
Books
Journal Articles
Conference Abstracts
Collection Catalogs
Special Publications / Monographs
Private Prints
Chapters in Books and Chronicle Notes
Electronic Media (CD-ROMs, DVDs, Video)
Bibliographies
Notes, Comments and Book Reviews
The bibliography comprises all references earlier published in the important H.Brown (1) and Sablina (2) bibliographies. Important periodicals and conference volumes, such as LPSC (abstracts and proceedings), Meteoritics & Planet. Sci. (MAPS), Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (GCA), Earth Planetary Science Letters, Proceedings of NIPR Symposiums on Antarctic Meteorites or Journal of Geophysical Research, are completely considered in this bibliography.
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» List of Journals/Serials referenced in MetBase Bibliography [317 KB]
» A statistical analysis of literature on meteorites and related subjects published between 1491 and 2005
» The MetBase Library of Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences
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Bibliography - Detailed Reference information
The database is keyword-indexed and holds the names of objects studied in the original publication (e.g., meteorite names, crater names, Apollo lunar rock ID numbers).
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Bibliography - Keywords and object names
Non-copyrighted abstract text for many references was kindly provided by Astrophysics Data System (ADS) of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA.. The original ADS bibcode is shown with the reference in order to allow MetBase users to retrieve the reference information directly from ADS online database (» http://adsabs.harvard.edu/ads_abstracts.html).
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Bibliography - abstract text
If a publication contains meteorite analysis data and if such information is stored in another database table, a link to this information can easily be set from the bibliography section of MetBase.
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Bibliography - Link to analysis data stored in other MetBase database sections
(1) H.Brown (1953) Bibliography on Meteorites, Univ. of Chicago Press, 686 pp.
(2) Sablina (1961-1985) Bibliograpic Index of Literature on Meteoritics, No. 11-35, Akad. Nauk SSSR.
(3) J.H.Greenberg (1966) Terrestrial Impact Structures - A Bibliograhy. Geol. Surv. Bull. No. 1220, 91 pp.
(4) J.H.Greenberg (1969) Terrestrial Impact Structures - A Bibliograhy 1965-1968. Geol. Surv. Bull. No. 1320, 35 pp.
