[IMAGE]METEORITICS &
PLANETARY SCIENCE


Year at a Glance 2000


From the Editors 
D. W. G. SEARS:  Meteoritics and Planetary Science in the next millenium  3
U. B. MARVIN:  The Meteoritical Society and Meteoritics and Planetary Science:  Past and future  4
W. K. HARTMANN:  Avoiding the weak link  4
R. A. F. GRIEVE:  A delta for the future  5
D. M. SHAW:  Nothing succeeds like excess  6
M. J. DRAKE:  The price of success  6
D. W. G. SEARS:  1999 Appreciations  7
D. W. G. SEARS:  The tight-lipped chondrites  443
T. D. SWINDLE:  The comeback continues for the iodine-xenon dating system  443
T. D. KRAL:  First Astrobiology Science Conference  444
F. J. M. RIETMEIJER:  Fire in the sky:  The 1999 Leonid multi-instrument aircraft campaign (MAC)  647
U. KRÄHENBÜHL:  The significance of lunar glasses  647
A. E. RUBIN:  Primitive R3 material  648
S. S. RUSSELL:  No meteorite is an island  648
D. W. G. SEARS:  The exploration of Mars, martian meteorites, and the search for life  891
G. BRIGGS:  "Follow the water"  892
G. BRIGGS:  "Follow the water"  892
I. C. LYON:  Many grains make light work  893
D. W. G. SEARS:  Meteoritics and Planetary Science for 2001  1125
G. RYDER:  Catastrophic events and mass extinctions:  Impacts and beyond, Vienna, Austria, 
     2000 July 9–12 
1125
 
Invited Reviews 
M. E. ZOLENSKY, C. PIETERS, B. CLARK AND J. J. PAPIKE:  Small is beautiful:  The analysis of nanogram-sized astromaterials  9
 
Articles 
L. L. BAKER, D. J. AGENBROAD AND S. A. WOOD:  Experimental hydrothermal alteration of a martian analog basalt:  Implications for martian meteorites  31
M. E. VARELA, G. KURAT, M. BONNIN-MOSBAH, R. CLOCCHIATTI AND D. MASSARE:  Glass-bearing inclusions in olivine of the Chassigny achondrite:  Heterogeneous trapping at sub-igneous temperatures  39
U. OTT AND F. BEGEMANN:  Spallation recoil and age of presolar grains in meteorites  53
T. L. DICKINSON AND P. WASILEWSKI:  Shock magnetism in fine particle iron 65
A. BRAATZ, U. OTT, TH. HENNING, C. JÄGER AND G. JESCHKE:  Infrared, ultraviolet, and electron paramagnetic resonance measurements on presolar diamonds:  Implications for optical features and origin  75
K. MISAWA AND T. FUJITA:  Magnesium isotopic fractionations in barred olivine chondrules from the Allende meteorite 85
J. ZIPFEL, P. SCHERER, B. SPETTEL, G. DREIBUS AND L. SCHULTZ:  Petrology and chemistry of the new shergottite Dar al Gani 476 95
T. D. SWINDLE, A. H. TREIMAN, D. J. LINDSTROM, M. K. BURKLAND, B. A. COHEN, J. A. GRIER, B. LI  AND E. K. OLSON:  Noble gases in iddingsite from the Lafayette meteorite:  Evidence for liquid water on Mars in the last few hundred million years 107
E. PIERAZZO AND H. J. MELOSH:  Hydrocode modeling of oblique impacts:  The fate of the projectile 117
Y. GUAN AND G. CROZAZ:  Light rare earth element enrichments in ureilites:  A detailed ion microprobe study 131
P. SCHERER AND L. SCHULTZ:  Noble gas record, collisional history, and pairing of CV, CO, CK, and other carbonaceous chondrites 145
T. MIKOUCHI AND M. MIYAMOTO:  Micro Raman spectroscopy of amphiboles and pyroxenes in the martian meteorites Zagami and Lewis Cliff 88516  155
S. WEINBRUCH, H. PALME AND B. SPETTEL:  Refractory forsterite in primitive meteorites:  Condensates from the solar nebula? 161
A. RUZICKA, G. A. SNYDER AND L. A. TAYLOR:  Crystal-bearing lunar spherules:  Impact melting of the Moon's crust and implications for the origin of meteoritic chondrules  173
T. A. GIGUERE, G. J. TAYLOR, B. R. HAWKE AND P. G. LUCEY:  The titanium contents of lunar mare basalts  193
S. B. SIMON, K. D. MCKEEGAN, D. S. EBEL AND L. GROSSMAN:  Complexly zoned chromium-aluminum spinel found in situ in the Allende meteorite 215
K. P. JOCHUM, A. J. STOLZ AND G. MCORIST:  Niobium and tantalum in carbonaceous chondrites:  Constraints on the solar system and primitive mantle niobium/tantalum, zirconium/niobium, and niobium/uranium ratios 229
A. STEELE, D. T. GODDARD, D. STAPLETON, J. K. W. TOPORSKI, V. PETERS, V. BASSINGER, G. SHARPLES, D. D. WYNN-WILLIAMS AND D. S. MCKAY:  Investigations into an unknown organism on the martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001 237
P. SPURNÝ, H. BETLEM, J. VAN'T LEVEN AND P. JENNISKENS:  Atmospheric behavior and extreme beginning heights of the thirteen brightest photographic Leonid meteors from the ground-based expedition to China 243
R. WIELER, A. PEDRONI AND I. LEYA:  Cosmogenic neon in mineral separates from Kapoeta:  No evidence for an irradiation of its parent body regolith by an early active Sun 251
I. LEYA, H-J. LANGE, S. NEUMANN, R. WIELER AND R. MICHEL:  The production of cosmogenic nuclides in stony meteoroids by galactic cosmic-ray particles 259
I. LEYA, H-J. LANGE, M. LÜPKE, U. NEUPERT, R. DAUNKE, O. FANENBRUCK, R. MICHEL, R. RÖSEL, B. MELTZOW, T. SCHIEKEL, F. SUDBROCK, U. HERPERS, D. FILGES, G. BONANI, B. DITTRICH-HANNEN, M. SUTER, P. W. KUBIK AND H-A. SYNAL:  Simulation of the interaction of galactic cosmic-ray protons with meteoroids:  On the production of radionuclides in thick gabbro and iron targets irradiated isotropically with 1.6 GeV protons 287
T. J. FAGAN, E. R. D. SCOTT, K. KEIL, T. F. COONEY AND S. K. SHARMA:  Formation of feldspathic and metallic melts by shock in enstatite chondrite Reckling Peak A80259 319
F. FRANKLIN AND M. LECAR:  On the transport of bodies within and from the asteroid belt 331
Y. SANO, K. TERADA, S. TAKENO, L. A. TAYLOR AND H. Y. MCSWEEN, JR.:  Ion microprobe uranium-thorium-lead dating of Shergotty phosphates 341
M. C. DOMENEGHETTI, G. M. MOLIN, M. TRISCARI AND M. ZEMA:  Orthopyroxene as a geospeedometer:  Thermal history of Kapoeta, Old Homestead 001, and Hughes 002 howardites 347
D. HEYMANN, F. CATALDO, M. H. THIEMENS, R. FOKKENS, N. M. M. NIBBERING AND R. D. VIS:  Formation of CmSn compounds by photopolymerization of CS2 in the atmosphere of Jupiter 355
J. M. PAQUE, G. E. LOFGREN AND L. LE:  Crystallization of calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions:  Experimental studies on the effects of repeated heating events 363
N. SUGIURA AND H. HOSHINO:  Hydrogen-isotopic compositions in Allan Hills 84001 and the evolution of the martian atmosphere 373
J. D. GORTER AND A. Y. GLIKSON:  Origin of a late Eocene to pre-Miocene buried crater and breccia lens at Fohn-1, North Bonaparte Basin, Timor Sea:  A probable extraterrestrial connection 381
P. H. BENOIT, D. W. G. SEARS, J. M. C. AKRIDGE, P. A. BLAND, F. J. BERRY AND C. T. PILLINGER:  The non-trivial problem of meteorite pairing 393
D. GARRISON, S. HAMLIN AND D. BOGARD:  Chlorine abundances in meteorites 419
E. HOFFMAN, D. SEIFU AND F. W. OLIVER:  Axtell and Allende:  A Mössbauer spectroscopic study 431
J. D. GILMOUR, J. A. WHITBY, G. TURNER, J. C. BRIDGES AND R. HUTCHISON:  The iodine-xenon system in clasts and chondrules from ordinary chondrites:  Implications for early solar system chronology  445
D. C. GOLDEN, D. W. MING, C. S. SCHWANDT, R. V. MORRIS, S. V. YANG AND G. E. LOFGREN:  An experimental study on kinetically-driven precipitation of calcium–magnesium–iron carbonates from solution:  Implications for the low-temperature formation of carbonates in martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001 457
J. N. GROSSMAN, C. M. O'D. ALEXANDER, J. WANG AND A. J. BREARLEY:  Bleached chondrules:  Evidence for widespread aqueous processes on the parent asteroids of ordinary chondrites  467
Y. NAKAMUTA AND Y. AOKI:  Mineralogical evidence for the origin of diamond in ureilites 487
R. O. PEPIN, R. L. PALMA AND D. J. SCHLUTTER:  Noble gases in interplanetary dust particles, I:  The excess helium-3 problem and estimates of the relative fluxes of solar wind and solar energetic particles in interplanetary space 495
R. G. SCOTT AND J. G. SPRAY:  The South Range Breccia Belt of the Sudbury Impact Structure:  A possible terrace collapse feature 505
C. A. GOODRICH AND K. RIGHTER:  Petrology of unique achondrite Queen Alexandra Range 93148:  A piece of the pallasite (howardite–eucrite–diogenite?) parent body? 521
P. WASILEWSKI AND T. DICKINSON:  Aspects of the validation of magnetic remanence in meteorites 537
R. T. SCHMITT:  Shock experiments with the H6 chondrite Kernouvé:  Pressure calibration of microscopic shock effects 545
C. LI, J. C. BRIDGES, R. HUTCHISON, I. A. FRANCHI, A. S. SEXTON, Z. OUYANG AND C. T. PILLINGER:  Bo Xian (LL3.9):  Oxygen-isotopic and mineralogical characterisation of separated chondrules 561
H. LEROUX, J-C. DOUKHAN AND C. PERRON:  Microstructures of metal grains in ordinary chondrites:  Implications for their thermal histories 569
H. HIDAKA, M. EBIHARA AND S. YONEDA:  Neutron capture effects on samarium, europium, and gadolinium in Apollo 15 deep drill-core samples 581
P. W. LAYER:  Argon-40/argon-39 age of the El'gygytgyn impact event, Chukotka, Russia 591
M. HUTSON AND A. RUZICKA:  A multi-step model for the origin of E3 (enstatite) chondrites  601
P. C. BUCHANAN, D. W. MITTLEFEHLDT, R. HUTCHISON, C. KOEBERL, D. J. LINDSTROM AND M. K. PANDIT:   Petrology of the Indian eucrite Piplia Kalan 609
D. TERRIBILINI, O. EUGSTER, D. W. MITTLEFEHLDT, L. W. DIAMOND, S. VOGT AND D. WANG:  Mineralogical and chemical composition and cosmic-ray exposure history of two mesosiderites and two iron meteorites 617
M. YU. ZOLOTOV AND E. L. SHOCK:  An abiotic origin for hydrocarbons in the Allan Hills 84001 martian meteorite through cooling of magmatic and impact-generated gases 629
B. S. PALIWAL, R. P. TRIPATHI, H. C. VERMA AND S. K. SHARMA:  Classification of the Didwana-Rajod meteorite:  A Mössbauer spectroscopic study 639
S. TAYLOR, J. H. LEVER AND R. P. HARVEY:  Numbers, types, and compositions of an unbiased collection of cosmic spherules 651
M. S. GILMORE AND J. W. HEAD:  Sequential deformation of plains at the margins of Alpha Regio, Venus: Implications for tessera formation 667
J. NEWTON, I. A. FRANCHI AND C. T. PILLINGER:  The oxygen-isotopic record in enstatite meteorites 689
A. BISCHOFF:  Mineralogical characterization of primitive, type-3 lithologies in Rumuruti chondrites  699
J. RONDOT:  Charlevoix and Sudbury as gravity-readjusted impact structures 707
J. L. MOKOS, L. FRANKE, P. SCHERER, L. SCHULTZ AND M. E. LIPSCHUTZ:  Cosmogenic radionuclides and noble gases in Antarctic H chondrites with high and normal natural thermoluminescence levels 713
J. PLADO, L. J. PESONEN, C. KOEBERL AND S. ELO:  The Bosumtwi meteorite impact structure, Ghana:  A magnetic model 723
L. FOLCO AND M. MELLINI:  Enstatite chemical composition and microstructures in the La Villa H4 chondrite 733
D. J. SAWYER, M. D. MCGEHEE, J. CANEPA AND C. B. MOORE:  Water soluble ions in the Nakhla martian metorite 743
N. SUGIURA, Y. IKEDA, S. ZASHU AND J. T. WASSON:  Nitrogen-isotopic compositions of IIIE iron meteorites 749
J. S. BOESENBERG, A. M. DAVIS, M. PRINZ, M. K. WEISBERG, R. N. CLAYTON AND T. K. MAYEDA:  The pyroxene pallasites, Vermillion and Yamato 8451:  Not quite a couple 757
T. J. FAGAN, A. N. KROT AND K. KEIL:  Calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions in enstatite chondrites (I):  Mineralogy and textures 771
J. A. VAN ORMAN AND T. L. GROVE:  Origin of lunar high-titanium ultramafic glasses:  Constraints from phase relations and dissolution kinetics of clinopyroxene–ilmenite cumulates 783
E. F. ALBIN, M. D. NORMAN AND M. RODEN:  Major and trace element compositions of georgiaites:  Clues to the source of North American tektites 795
N. L. CHABOT AND M. J. DRAKE:  Crystallization of magmatic iron meteorites:  The effects of phosphorus and liquid immiscibility  807
A. N. KROT, A. MEIBOM AND K. KEIL:  A clast of Bali-like oxidized CV material in the reduced CV chondrite breccia Vigarano 817
 
L. FOLCO, I. A. FRANCHI, M. D'ORAZIO, S. ROCCHI AND L. SCHULTZ:  A new martian meteorite from the Sahara:  The shergottite Dar al Gani 489  827
J. LLORCA AND I. CASANOVA:  Reaction between H2, CO, and H2S over Fe,Ni metal in the solar nebula:  Experimental evidence for the formation of sulfur-bearing organic molecules and sulfides  841
R. H. JONES, J. M. SAXTON, I. C. LYON AND G. TURNER:  Oxygen isotopes in chondrule olivine and isolated olivine grains from the CO3 chondrite, Allan Hills A77307  849
C. M. O'D. ALEXANDER, J. N. GROSSMAN, J. WANG, B. ZANDA, M. BOUROT-DENISE AND R. H. HEWINS:  The lack of potassium-isotopic fractionation in Bishunpur chondrules  859
J. M. C. AKRIDGE, P. H. BENOIT AND D. W. G. SEARS:  Terrestrial age measurements using natural thermoluminescence of a drained zone under the fusion crust of Antarctic ordinary chondrites  869
G. KLETETSCHKA, P. J. WASILEWSKI AND P. T. TAYLOR:  Mineralogy of the sources for magnetic anomalies on Mars  895
D. W. MITTLEFEHLDT:  Petrology and geochemistry of the Elephant Moraine A79002 diogenite:  A genomict breccia containing a magnesian harzburgite component  901
S. GHOSH, N. C. PANT, T. K. RAO, C. RAMA MOHANA, J. B. GHOSH, S. SHOME, N. BHANDARI, A. D. SHUKLA AND K. M. SUTHAR:  The Vissannapeta eucrite  913
R. C. F. LENTZ AND H. Y. MCSWEEN, JR.:  Crystallization of the basaltic shergottites:  Insights from crystal size distribution (CSD) analysis of pyroxenes  919
E. STURKELL, J. ORMÖ, J. NÕLVAK AND Å. WALLIN:  Distant ejecta from the Lockne marine-target impact crater, Sweden  929
T. MIKOUCHI, I. YAMADA AND M. MIYAMOTO:  Symplectic exsolution in olivine from the Nakhla martian meteorite  937
M. ZBIK, M. JASIENIAK AND R. ST. C. SMART:  Organosilane occurrence in irghizite samples from the Zhamanshin impact crater, Kazakhstan  943
H. BUSEMANN, H. BAUR AND R. WIELER:  Primordial noble gases in "phase Q" in carbonaceous and ordinary chondrites studied by closed-system stepped etching  949
A. ALBRECHT, C. SCHNABEL, S. VOGT, S. XUE, G. F. HERZOG, F. BEGEMANN, H. W. WEBER, R. MIDDLETON, D. FINK AND J. KLEIN:  Light noble gases and cosmogenic radionuclides in Estherville, Budulan, and other mesosiderites:  Implications for exposure histories and production rates  975
N. SUGIURA, S. ZASHU, M. WEISBERG AND M. PRINZ:  A nitrogen isotope study of bencubbinites  987
S. AMARI, E. ZINNER AND R. S. LEWIS:  Isotopic compositions of different presolar silicon carbide size fractions from the Murchison meteorite  997
L. BROWNING, H. Y. MCSWEEN, JR. AND M. E. ZOLENSKY:  On the origin of rim textures surrounding anhydrous silicate grains in CM carbonaceous chondrites  1015
F. J. M. RIETMEIJER:  Interrelationships among meteoric metals, meteors, interplanetary dust, micrometeorites, and meteorites  1025
D. TERRIBILINI, O. EUGSTER, G. F. HERZOG AND C. SCHNABEL:  Evidence for common breakup events of the acapulcoites-lodranites and chondrites  1043
S. S. RUSSELL, A. M. DAVIS, G. J. MACPHERSON, Y. GUAN AND G. R. HUSS:  Refractory inclusions from the ungrouped carbonaceous chondrites MacAlpine Hills 87300 and 88107  1051
K. L. RASMUSSEN, B. AABY AND R. GWOZDZ:  The age of the Kaalijärv meteorite craters  1067
C. FLOSS:  Complexities on the acapulcoite-lodranite parent body:  Evidence from trace element distributions in silicate minerals  1073
J. A. BARRAT, J. BLICHERT-TOFT, PH. GILLET AND F. KELLER:  The differentiation of eucrites:  The role of in situ crystallization  1087
C. M. PIETERS, L. A. TAYLOR, S. K. NOBLE, L. P. KELLER, B. HAPKE, R. V. MORRIS, C. C. ALLEN, D. S. MCKAY AND S. WENTWORTH:  Space weathering on airless bodies:  Resolving a mystery with lunar samples  1101
P. SPURNÝ , H. BETLEM,  K. JOBSE,  P. KOTEN AND J. VAN'T LEVEN:  New type of radiation of bright Leonid meteors above 130 km  1109
G. K. BENEDIX, T. J. MCCOY, K. KEIL AND S. G. LOVE:  A petrologic study of the IAB iron meteorites:  Constraints on the formation of the IAB–Winonaite parent body  1127
M. J. GENGE:  Chondrule formation by the ablation of small planetesimals  1143
M-Y. LEE AND K-Y. WEI:  Australasian microtektites in the South China Sea and the West Philippine Sea: Implications for age, size, and location of the impact crater  1151
P. HOPPE, R. STREBEL, P. EBERHARDT, S. AMARI AND R. S. LEWIS:  Isotopic properties of  silicon carbide X grains from the Murchison meteorite in the size range 0.5–1.5 µm  1157
O. EUGSTER, E. POLNAU, E. SALERNO AND D. TERRIBILINI:  Lunar surface exposure models for meteorites Elephant Moraine 96008 and Dar al Gani 262 from the Moon  1177
P. GEORGES, G. LIBOUREL AND E. DELOULE:  Experimental constraints on alkali condensation in chondrule formation  1183
T. KENKMANN AND I. VON DALWIGK:  Radial transpression ridges:  A new structural feature of complex impact craters  1189
S. L. WILKISON AND M. S. ROBINSON:  Bulk density of ordinary chondrite meteorites and implications for asteroidal internal structure  1203
T. E. FERKO, L. SCHULTZ, L. FRANKE, D. D. BOGARD, D. H. GARRISON, R. HUTCHISON AND M. E. LIPSCHUTZ: Exposure history of the Mocs (L6) chondrite:  A study of strewn field samples  1215
B. KETTRUP, A. DEUTSCH, M. OSTERMANN AND P. AGRINIER:  Chicxulub impactites:  Geochemical clues to the precursor rocks  1229
B-G. CHOI, A. N. KROT AND J. T. WASSON:  Oxygen isotopes in magnetite and fayalite in CV chondrites Kaba and Mokoia  1239
A. N. KROT, A. MEIBOM, M. I. PETAEV, K. KEIL, M. E. ZOLENSKY, A. SAITO, M. MUKAI AND K. OHSUMI:  Ferrous silicate spherules with euhedral iron-nickel metal grains from CH carbonaceous chondrites:  Evidence for supercooling and condensation under oxidizing conditions  1249
M. D. CAMPBELL, P. G. BROWN, A. G. LEBLANC, R. L. HAWKES, J. JONES, S. P. WORDEN AND R. R. CORRELL:  Image-intensified video results from the 1998 Leonid shower:  I.  Atmospheric trajectories and physical structure  1259
N. SUZUKI, S. KIMURA, T. NAKADA, C. KAITO, Y. SAITO AND C. KOIKE:  Correlation between crystallographic structure andinfrared spectra of silicon oxide films containing iron or magnesium atoms  1269
T. KENKMANN, U. HORNEMANN AND D. STÖFFLER:  Experimental generation of shock-induced pseudotachylites along lithological interfaces  1275
N. P. HANOWSKI AND A. J. BREARLEY:  Iron-rich aureoles in the CM carbonaceous chondrites Murray, Murchison, and Allan Hills 81002:  Evidence for in situ aqueous alteration  1291
A. MORBIDELLI, J. CHAMBERS, J. I. LUNINE, J. M. PETIT, F. ROBERT, G. B. VALSECCHI AND K. E. CYR:  Source regions and timescales for the delivery of water to the Earth  1309
P. C. BUCHANAN, D. J. LINDSTROM, D. W. MITTLEFEHLDT, C. KOEBERL AND W. U. REIMOLD:  The South African polymict eucrite Macibini  1321
G. SRINIVASAN, G. R. HUSS AND G. J. WASSERBURG:  A petrographic, chemical, and isotopic study of calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions and aluminum-rich chondrules from the Axtell (CV3) chondrite  1333
V. A. FERNANDES, R. BURGESS AND G. TURNER:  Laser argon-40-argon-39 age studies of Dar al Gani 262 lunar meteorite  1355
A. N. KROT, A. J. BREARLEY, M. I. PETAEV, G. W. KALLEMEYN, D. W. G.  SEARS, P. H. BENOIT, I. D. HUTCHEON, M. E. ZOLENSKY AND K. KEIL:  Evidence for low-temperature growth of fayalite and hedenbergite in MacAlpine Hills 88107, an ungrouped carbonaceous chondrite related to the CM-CO clan  1365
P. A. BLAND, M. R. LEE, A. S. SEXTON, I. A. FRANCHI, A. E. T. FALLICK, M. F. MILLER, J. M. CADOGAN, F. J. BERRY AND C. T. PILLINGER:  Aqueous alteration without a pronounced oxygen-isotopic shift:  Implications for the asteroidal processing of chondritic materials  1387
Reports
R. P. TRIPATHI, S. K. SHARMA, K. L. SHRIVASTAVA AND H. C. VERMA:  Mössbauer spectroscopic studies of the Piplia Kalan (eucrite) and Lohawat (howardite) meteorites 201
J. J. PAPIKE, C. K. SHEARER, M. N. SPILDE AND J. M. KARNER:  Metamorphic diogenite Grosvenor Mountains 95555:  Mineral chemistry of orthopyroxene and spinel and comparisons to the diogenite suite 875
Memorial
C. C. SCHNETZLER AND B. M. FRENCH:  Memorial for Louis S. Walter  881
D. E. DAVIS:  Memorial for Paolo Farinella  1397
Books and Multimedia Reviews
B. COHEN:  Meteorites and Their Parent Planets, Second Edition by Harry McSween, Jr.  205
I. WRIGHT:  Life on Other Worlds:  The 20th-Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate by Steven J. Dick  205
R. WIELER:  Introduction to Stellar Winds by Henny Lamers and Joseph Cassinelli  206
H. Y. MCSWEEN, JR.:  Discovering the Solar System by B. W. Jones  435
M. HOSKIN:  The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy by J. Evans  435
H. PALME:  The Planetary Scientist’s Companion by Katharina Lodders and Bruce Fegley, Jr.  643
D. BRITT:  Planetary Astronomy: From Ancient Times to the Third Millennium by Ronald A. Schorn  643
C. KOEBERL:  Evolutionary Catastrophes: The Science of Mass Extinction by Vincent Courtillot  883
H. C. CONNOLLY, JR.:  Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist by Brother Guy Consolmagno SJ  884
B. FEGLEY, JR.:  Photochemistry of Planetary Atmospheres by Yuk L. Yung and William B. DeMore  884
T. H. BURBINE:  Looking for Earths:  The Race to Find New Solar Systems by Alan Boss  885
M. S. GILMORE:  Venus Revealed:  A New Look Below the Clouds of our Mysterious Twin Planet by David H. Grinspoon  885
E. GUROV:  Diamond-bearing Impactites of the Popigai Astrobleme edited by V. L. Masaitis  1117
P. ABELL:  Cosmic Pinball:  The Science of Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids by C. Sumners and C. Allen 1117
T. A. KRAL:  The Search for Life on Mars by M. Walter  1118
D. K. YEOMANS:  Great Comets by R. Burnham  1118
V. L. MASAITIS:  The Tswaing Meteorite Crater:  An Introduction to the Natural and Cultural History of the Tswaing Region Including a Description of the Hiking Trail by W. U. Reimold, D. Brandt, R. de Jong, and J. Hancox  1119
A. E. RUBIN:  Introduction to Mineralogy by William D. Nesse  1399
W. F. HUEBNER: Cometography:  A Catalog of Comets by Gary W. Kronk  1399
M. ZOLENSKY:  Texture and Anisotropy:  Preferred Orientations in Polycrystals and their Effect on Materials Properties by U. F. Kocks, C. N. Tomé and H-R. Wenk  1400
U. B. MARVIN:  The Star of Bethlehem: The Legacy of the Magi by Michael R. Molnar  1400
Announcements
Asteroids, meteorites, impacts and their consequences (AMICO 2000), Nördlingen im Ries, Germany, 2000 May 16–20  207
Conference on the Earth–Moon relationship, Padova, Italy, 2000 November 8–10  437
The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena, Palermo, Italy, 2000 December 31 to 2001 January 6  1120
Impact markers in the stratigraphic record, Granada, Spain, 2001 May 19–25  1403
Asteroids 2001:  From Piazzi to the 3rd Millennium, Palermo, Italy, 2001 June 11–16  1403
Information for Contributors  209
Meteoritical Society Business  1404
The Year at a Glance  1405
Annual Subject Index  1411
Annual Author Index  1421
 
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