Summary: | The following points were emphasized: weathering processes, terrestrial ages, investigations of "unusual" meteorites, and collection and curation. Sponsored by Lunar and Planetary Institute, Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, University of the Witwatersrand Edited by Ludolf Schultz, Ian A. Franchi, Arch M. Reid, and Michael E. Zolensky PARTIAL CONTENTS: Chemical Compositions of Large Interplanetary Dust Particles from the Stratosphere and Small Antarctic Micrometeorites: Evidence for Element Loss and Addition in the Antarctic Micrometeorites / G.J. Flynn, S.R. Sutton, and W. Klock -- The Influence of Terrestrial Weathering on Implanted Solar Gases in Lunar Meteorites / l. Franchi, A.B. Verchovsky, and C.T. Pillinger -- Meteorites from Cold and Hot Deserts: How Many, How Big, and What Sort / M.M. Grady -- Using 14C and 14C_10ue for Terrestrial Ages of Desert Meteorites / J.T. Jull, P.A. Bland, S.E. Klandrud, L.R. McHargue, A.W.R. Bevan, D.A. Kring, and F. Wlotzka -- The Gold Basin Strewn Field, Mojave Desert, and its Survival from the Late Pleistocene to the Present / D.A. Kring, A.J.T. Jull, and P.A. Bland -- Thermally Mobile Trace Elements in Carbonaceous Chondrites from Cold and Hot Deserts / M.E. Lipschutz -- Historical Notes on Three Exceptional Meteorites of Southern Africa: The Cape of Good Hope, Gibeon, and Hoba / U.B. Marvin.
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