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On The Trail Of Stardust : The Field Guide To Finding Micrometeorites Tools Techniques And Identification
Paperback Edition: 1
Stardust-also known as micrometeorites-is the oldest matter anywhere. Nothing has traveled farther to reach Earth. For acentury, scientists have searched everywhere for stardust, but only found it in remote areas like Antarctica and, morerecently, outer space. Author and citizen scientist extraordinaire Jon Larsen was the first to find them in populated areas.With this book, you too can discover stardust as near as your own rooftop!
Following his successful debut, In Search of Stardust, Larsen turns his attention from explaining the formation and variouskinds of stardust to revealing his methods and techniques for finding micrometeorites in a compact, durable guide. Larsen covers everything from the origins and formation of micrometeorites to assembling the simple array of gear needed to getout there and find stardust in your own neighborhood, rooftop, or rain gutters.
Larsen explains the best places to look and offers step-by-step photo sequences of the techniques he has developed toassemble his collection of 1,500-plus verified micrometeorites (and counting). And you don't need a multi-million-dollarscanning electron microscope to document your collection; Jon shows how to assemble a serviceable photo setup fromeasily accessible equipment.
The book is capped off with a field guide of sorts that offers a taxonomy of the various types of micrometeorites, alongwith sample images, as well as the kinds of man-made and terrestrial spherules that stardust hunters are likely toencounter and how to identify them as imposters.
Once thought to exist only at the bottoms of oceans and atop polar ice, it turns out that stardust is everywhere...and On the Trail of Stardust is your indispensable tool to finding it for yourself.
Pages : 144
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Publication date : 2019-04-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Science And Technology, Physics, Astronomy, Space & Time