What’s So Mysterious About Meteorites

作者簡介

　　O. Richard Norton fell in love with meteorites while studying astronomy at UCLA with renowned meteoriticist Frederick C. Leonard. As director of the Fleischmann Planetarium at the Univeristy of Nevada at Reno and the Flandrau Planetarium at the University of Arizona at Tucson, he taught astronomy and shared his enthusiasm for meteorites, geology, and photography in public lectures and community education classes. He traveled to Cape Canaveral to film the Apollo launches, designed a fish-eye motion picture system that flew on the space shuttle Challenger, and led field trips to photograph total solar eclipses and comets around the world. His previous books about meteorites are Rocks from Space, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Meteorites, and Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites. He was a fellow of the Meteorological Society and a contributing editor of Meteorite magazine. He died in 2009 before he completed work on this book.

　 　Dorothy Sigler Norton is an artist and scientific illustrator. She studied art at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Iowa. Her colorful illustrations and ink drawings have appeared in many magazines and books, and her large paintings hang in the national geological museum in Japan. With Richard she operated Science Graphics, a company that supplied science teaching materials to universities worldwide. Her passion for meteorites began when she discovered it is actually possible to own one, and she has been collecting and searching for them ever since. She is a member of the International Meteorite Collectors Association and serves on the editorial advisory board of Meteorite magazine.