Table of Contents

Contents: History of meteoritic research; The Vienna meteorite collection; Where do meteorites come from?; Where and how are meteorites found?; What are meteorites made of?; Classification of meteorites; Stony meteorites; Stony-iron meteorites; Iron meteorites; Austrian meteorites; Fossil meteorites; Mars and Martian meteorites; Moon and lunar meteorites; Meteorite shower; Formation of impact craters; Solar system; We all are stardust.

About the Author

Franz Brandstatter is currently director of the Mineralogical-Petrographical Department of the Natural History Museum in Vienna. He has worked as a scientist at the museum since 1982 and became curator of the meteorite collection of the Natural History Museum in Vienna in 2004. Ludovic Ferriere became curator of the rock collection and co-curator of the meteorite collection at the Natural History Museum in Vienna in 2011. He played a major role in the preparations of the new presentation of the meteorite collection in November 2012 and in reorganising the collection to modern standards. Christian Koberl is a professor of impact research and planetary geology at the University of Vienna, Austria, and Director General of the Natural History Museum in Vienna. He is best known for his research on meteorite impact craters.