INDEX

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A

Aaranson, Adam

ablation

achondrite

Adamana

age

Akhmetaleyev, Marat

Alan Fraser crater

alcohol

Alexander, Captain JE

Algeria

Allan Hills

Allende

Ambrose, Prof. David

amino acids

Antarctic

Arabian Peninsula

Arctic

Argentina

Arizona

Armanty

Ashwal, Prof. Lewis

asteroids

ataxite

Australia

Austrian Museum, Vienna

B

Bacubirito

Barberton

Barringer crater

Belarus

Bethany

Biot, Jean-Baptiste

Botswana

Botswana meteorite

Brahin

Britz, Jacobus

C

Campo del Cielo

Canyon Diablo

Cape York (Agpalilik)

Cape York (Ahnighito)

carbonaceous chondrite

Ceres (dwarf planet)

Ceres (town in SA)

chassignites

Chelyabinsk

Chicago

Chicago Natural History Museum

Chicxulub crater

Chile

China

Chladni, Ernst Florens

chondrite

chondrule

Chupaderos

classification

crater

crater equivalent

D

desert varnish

diogenite

Dofar

Du Toit, Pieter

E

El Aglab

Ellisras

Eros

Esquel

eucrite

Europe

explosion

export

F

falls

Fersman Mineralogical Museum, Moscow

Ficksburg

finds

flow lines

Fraser, Alan

Frick, Dr

fusion crust

G

Gibeon

Glorieta

gravity

Great Fish River

Greenland

Grootfontein

H

Haag, Robert

Harvard University

Museum

HED meteorites

Heineip River

Henbury

Herschel, Sir John

hexahedrite

Hoba

Högbom, A

Howard, Edward

howardite

I

Imilac

impact crater

International Meteorite Collectors Association (IMCA)

Iron Age

iron meteorite

iron-nickel

Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town

J

jewellery

Johannesburg

Juno

Jupiter

K

Kalahari

kamacite

Kashuba, John

Keetmanshoop

Khabarovsk

Khama, President of Botswana

Kichinka, Kevin

Kilgore

Korra Korrabes

Koue Bokkeveld

Kowalewski, André

Küiseb River

L

legislation

Lephalale

Lesotho

Libya

lipping

Louw, Eric

Lunar achondrite

Lunar breccia

Lunar meteorite

M

Macabeni

Maclear, Sir Thomas

magnet

Malawi

Mariental

Mars

Martian achondrite

Martian meteorite

Maseru

Mattila, Amalia

Mattila, Viktor

Mbosi

Medvedev, AA

Menzies, Mr Justice

mesosiderite

meteor

meteorwrongs

Mexico

Millbillillie

Moon

Morocco

Mount Padbury

Mozambique

Mundrabilla

Muonionalusta

Murchison

Museum of Natural History, Paris

N

nakhlites

Namib Desert

Namibia

Namibian Heritage Council

National Institute for Polar Research, Japan

Natural History Museum, London

Neumann lines

Neumann, Franz Ernest

nickel

Nigeria

North America

northwest Africa/NWA

nucleotides

O

octahedrite

Oosterberg, Thomas

Oranjemund

ordinary chondrite

oriented meteorite

Otavi Mountains

Oued Draa valley

oxidation

P

Pallas (asteroid)

Pallas, Peter

pallasite

Park Forest

Parys

Patterson, D

peridot

permit

Philadelphia Academy of Science

Pluto

Poonanski, Herbert

Pretoria Saltpan

price

Pueblito de Allende

Putorana Plateau

R

Rand Afrikaans University

Range, Dr Paul

regmaglypts

Roter Kamm crater

Royal Geographical Society

Russia

rust

S

Sahara

salt

scams

Scottish Museum, Edinburgh

Seymchan

shergottite

shooting stars

Siberia

Sikhote Alin

sinkhole

Soshanguve

South Africa

South African Council for Geoscience

South African Heritage Agency

South West Africa

Sperrgebiet

Stone Age

stone meteorite

stony-iron meteorite

sugars

Svensson, Daniel

Sweden

T

Tamdakht

Tanzania

Tata

Taza

Thompson, George

Thuathe

Tissint

Trembath, Captain Jane

Tswaing crater

Tuli Block

Tunguska

U

United States National Natural History Museum, Washington

University of the Free State

Urals

USA

V

Vaca Muerta

Van der Westhuizen, Prof. Willem

Vernadsky Institute

Vesta

Vladivostok

Vredefort crater

W

Walvis Bay

weight

Wickman, Frans

Widmanstatten lines

Widmanstatten, Count Alois von Beckh

Willamette

Windhoek

Wits University, Johannesburg

World Heritage Site

Z

Zagami

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Zoutpan