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Space Science Resources

Finding out about meteorites from Royal Observatory Greenwich on Vimeo.

Inside the Meteorite Clean Room at the Smithsonian from the Smithsonian Antarctic Meteorite Program.

NASA Astromaterials Acquisition & Curation Office. Extraterrestrial samples: Genesis, Stardust, Microparticle Impact, Meteorites, Moon, Cosmic Dust, and Hayabusa.

NASA Astromaterials 3D. Interactive, high-resolution, research-grade 3D visualizations and interior scans of NASA's collections of Apollo Lunar Samples and Antarctic Meteorites.

Meteorites: An Overview by Edward R. D. Scott (2011) Elements, v. 7(1), p. 47-48. Linked here by PSRD with permission.

Meteoritical Bulletin Database, searchable database with authoritative information about meteorite names with additional facts that include classification, place and year of discovery, photographs, and references for more details.
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Antarctic Meteorite Classification Database, published online by curator.jsc.nasa.gov.

Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter, online volumes published twice a year by curator.jsc.nasa.gov.

Antarctic Meteorite Sample References, online, searchable bibliography with over 1600 peer-reviewed publications through 2017, by curator.jsc.nasa.gov.

"Best Practices for the Use of Meteorite Names in Publications," open access article, by Heck P. R. and 29 others (2019) in Meteoritics & Planetary Science, v. 54(7), p. 1397-1400.

Lunar Meteorites, comprehensive site from Randy Korotev, Washington University in St. Louis.

Meteorites and Their Properties, by David A. Kring, Lunar and Planetary Institute. Also available in Spanish.

Meteorite Classification Chart, from curator.jsc.nasa.gov.

The Meteoritical Society.
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Apollo Digital Image Archive from Arizona State University.

Apollo Lunar Sample and Photo Catalog from NASA Astromaterials Acquisition & Curation Office.

Apollo Lunar Sample Atlas from the Lunar and Planetary Institute.

Apollo Lunar Soil Characterization Consortium from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Cosmochemistry Illustrated, slide presentations with extraterrestrial examples of topics covered in undergraduate geochemistry, petrology, and introductory geology courses.

NASA Image and Video Library

NASA Mars Exploration Program.

NASA Mars Images: Mars Orbiter Camera on Mars Global Surveyor, from Malin Space Science Systems.

NASA National Space Grant Program.

NASA News.

NASA Planetary Photojournal, comprehensive resource for publicly released images from NASA Solar System exploration programs.

NASA Science Mission Directorate.

NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute, SSERVI.

NASA Solar System Lithographs of asteroids, comets, moons, planets, Sun, plus background information for each; from NASA Educational Materials.

Oxygen isotope plots, a primer from PSRD on how cosmochemists use these plots and interpret the data.

SAO/NASA ADS Query Form, searchable database of technical references operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory under a NASA grant.

Spudis Lunar Resources Blog, Legacy Blog by the late Dr. Paul D. Spudis archived by the National Space Society with the kind permission of the Spudis family.

The Planetary Society, founded to empower the world's citizens to advance space science and exploration.
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EarthSky, daily science radio service and web site with stories covering Astronomy, Earth Science, Environmental Science, and Space.

New Scientist, science and technology weekly magazine.

Slide sets, Discoveries in Planetary Science Slide Sets from the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society. Also available in Spanish and Farsi.

space.com, Space news, information, education, and resources.

What is the order of the planets in our Solar System? Eight planets orbit the Sun. In order of average distance from the Sun they are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.   Pluto, previously considered to be the farthest planet, was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union, though this geophysical planet definition still regards Pluto as a planet. There are more dwarf planets orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune and some are in the asteroid belt.

Learning Activities for Earth and Space Sciences

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Astronomy Programs, Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Cosmochemistry Illustrated, slide presentations (with instructional notes) with extraterrestrial examples of topics covered in undergraduate geochemistry, petrology, and introductory geology courses; from the University of Hawaii.

Exploring Planets in the Classroom, K-12 hands-on activities formatted in teacher-background pages and student sheets; from Hawaii Space Grant Consortium.

Higher Education Lunar Resources, lunar science and exploration content for undergraduate and graduate courses; from the Lunar and Planetary Institute and the Center for Lunar Science and Exploration.

LPI Educator Resources, K-12 resources; from the Lunar and Planetary Institute.

NASA Science for Educators, K-12 and public outreach resources; from the NASA Science Mission Directorate.

NASA Stardust Mission, K-12 and public outreach resoaurces; from the archived site of NASA's Comet Sample Return Mission.

Planetary Geology and Meteoritics Books

Greeley, Ronald, 1994, Planetary Landscapes, Chapman and Hall, 286 p.

McSween Jr., Harry Y., 2000, Meteorites and Their Parent Planets, Cambridge University Press, 310 p.

McSween Jr., Harry Y. and Huss, Gary R., 2010, Cosmochemistry, Cambridge University Press, 549 p.

Technical Journals with Cosmochemistry Content

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American Mineralogist

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Elements

Geochemistry/Chemie der Erde

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Geophysical Research Letters

Icarus

Journal of Geophysical Research–Planets

Meteoritics & Planetary Science

Nature

Nature Geoscience

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Science

The Astrophysical Journal

How Science Works

Sagan, Carl, 1995, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Random House, 457 p.

Strahler, Arthur N., 1992, Understanding Science: An Introduction to Concepts and Issues, Prometheus Books, 409 p.

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