陨石的起源

在坠落到地球之前,这些石质或金属物体暴露于宇宙射线。这种轰击产生的氦为揭示过去的行星灾变提供了新的线索

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S. FRED SINGER is director of the Science and Environmental Policy Project in Fairfax, Va., and professor at George Mason University. A pioneer in the use of rockets (captured German V-2s) to investigate the upper atmosphere and near-Earth space, he was the first director of the National Weather Satellite Center. He devised the cosmic-ray method of dating meteorites and was among the first to study the origin and evolution of the Martian moons.

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大众科学 Magazine Vol 191 Issue 5This article was originally published with the title “The Origin of Meteorites” in 大众科学 Magazine Vol. 191 No. 5 (), p. 36
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1154-36
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