Meteorite Research

Bill Cassidy led meteorite recovery expeditions in the Antarctic for fifteen years and his searches have resulted in the collection of thousands of meteorite specimens from the ice. This personal account of his field experiences on the U.S…

This Special Publication has 24 papers with an international authorship, and is prefaced by an introductory overview which presents highlights in the field. The first section covers the acceptance by science of the reality of the falls of rock and metal from the sky, an account that takes the reader from BCE (before common era) to the nineteenth century.

Editors: Candace Lloyd

What happened on June 30, 1908 in the Tunguska region of Siberia? It was around 7:15 in the morning when a powerful explosion occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River — some eyewitnesses also claimed to have heard several tremors. The earth shook so much that it could be felt as far away as Europe. The consequences were devastating: in an area the size of the Luxembourg, 60 million trees were snapped, and a fire, a huge shock and an immense pressure wave could be felt 500 kilometers away - that this did not become one of the greatest catastrophes of humanity, is solely because the incident occurred in a sparsely populated area.