BOOK

"Rocks from Space"
by O Richard Norton
illustrated by Dorothy S Norton
published by Mountain Press Publishing Company Montana 1994
xii + 446 pages (paperback edition)

A comprehensive well written book about meteorites - "the science, the superstition and folklore, and the tales of people who collect them".

Arranged in four parts:

1 Falls, Finds and Craters
2 What is a Meteorite?
3 Meteorite Hunters
4 Origins

A total of 20 chapters, followed by five appendices:

A Meteorite Verification Laboratories
B Commercial Meteorite Dealers
C Impact Crater List
D Etching an Iron Meteorite
E Testing a Meteorite for Nickel

A very readable and practical book with many ideas.