📚 Meteorites

Rocks that fell: the finds and their analysis, and what they say about the solar system’s first moments.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject meteorites in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Exploring Meteor Showers	Brigid Gallagher	2017	9
	Eruptive rocks	S. James Shand	1927	7
	Between the planets	Fletcher G. Watson	1941	7
	Magic School Bus Out of This World	Joanna Cole	1996	7
	Eruptive rocks	S. J. Shand	1927	6
	Catalogue of meteorites	British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Mineralogy.	1923	5
	The Navajo Meteorite	Sharat Kumar Roy	1949	5
	Meteorites and their parent planets	Harry Y. McSween	1987	5
	Meteorites, Ice, and Antarctica	William A. Cassidy	2003	5
	Origin of Chondrules and Chondrites	Derek W. G. Sears	2004	5
	Études synthétiques de géologie expérimentale	A. Daubrée	1879	4
	A Chapter In The History Of Meteorites	Walter Flight	1887	4
	The Ward=Coonley collection of meteorites	Ward, Henry A.	1900	4
	Out of the sky	Harvey Harlow Nininger	1952	4
	Kleine Meteoritenkunde	Fritz Heide	1957	4
	Principles of meteoritics	E. L. Krinov	1960	4
	Meteorites	John T. Wasson	1974	4
	Meteorites	Hutchison, Robert	1992	4
	The distribution of aerolites in space	Harvey, Arthur	1896	3
	Meteorite studies	Oliver C. Farrington	1902	3
	Meteorites	Oliver C. Farrington	1915	3
	Nebesnye kamni	E. L. Krinov	1950	3
	The moon, meteorites, and comets	Barbara M. Middlehurst	1963	3
	Terrestrial impact structures	Jacquelyn H. Freeberg	1966	3
	Meteorites	A. A. Moss	1967	3
	Meteorites and their origins	G. J. H. McCall	1973	3
	Catalog of meteorites from Victoria Land, Antarctica, 1978-1980	Ursula B. Marvin	1982	3
	The search for our beginning	Hutchison, Robert	1983	3
	The Tucson meteorites	Richard R. Willey	1986	3
	Cosmic debris	John G. Burke	1986	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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