Required readings are available either from the Coursepack at Clean Copy ("COURSEPACK"), over the internet by electronic reserve at the library ("E-RESERVE"), for 2-hour checkout from the reserve desk in the library ("2-HOUR RESERVE"), or over the internet ("INTERNET").

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1. (2-HOUR RESERVE)
Sears D.W.G. and R.T. Dodd (1988) Overview and classification of meteorites. In Meteorites and the Early Solar System (eds. J.F. Kerridge and M.S. Matthews), pp. 3-31. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. Discusses meteorite classification with emphasis on chondrites.

2. (E-RESERVE)
Dodd R. T. (1981) Differentiated meteorites: iron meteorites, pallasites, and their associates. In Meteorites- A petrologic-chemical synthesis, Ch. 7, pp. 192-235. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. Discusses basics about iron meteorites & pallasites, including how they are classified and where they formed.

No required readings, but see items on reserve and e-article in glossary.

1. (INTERNET)
See http://www.lpi.usra.edu/books/AsteroidsIII/pdf/3024.pdf
Gaffey et al. (2002) Mineralogy of asteroids. In Asteroids III (eds. W.F. Bottke, Jr., A. Cellino, P. Paolicchi, and R. Binzel), pp. 183-204. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. Reviews how asteroid spectra are obtained and what info about mineralogy can be gleaned from it.
 

2. (INTERNET)
See http://www.lpi.usra.edu/books/AsteroidsIII/pdf/3028.pdf
Burbine T.H., T.J. McCoy, A. Meibom, B. Gladman and K. Keil (2002) Meteoritic parent bodies: Their number and identification. In Asteroids III (eds. W.F. Bottke, Jr., A. Cellino, P. Paolicchi, and R. Binzel), pp. 653-667. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. Reviews evidence for the number and identity of meteorite parent bodies and how meteorites are delivered to Earth.

3. (COURSEPACK)
Bell J.F., D.R. Davis, W.K. Hartmann and M.J. Gaffey (1989) Asteroids: The big picture. In Asteroids II (eds.R.P. Binzel, T. Gehrels, and M.S. Matthews), pp. 921-945. Makes case for radial T gradient in asteroid belt.
 

1. (E-RESERVE)
Hewins R.H. (1997) Chondrules. In Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 25, 61-83. Reviews evidence pertaining to chondrules and what they might tell us about the solar nebula.

2. (2-HOUR RESERVE AND E-RESERVE)
MacPherson, G.J., D.A. Wark and J.T. Armstrong (1988) Primitive material surviving in chondrites: Refractory inclusions. In Meteorites and the Early Solar System (eds. J.F. Kerridge and M.S. Matthews), pp. 746-807. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. Extensive review of studies of CAIs in various meteorites.

3. (COURSEPACK)
Jones R.H., T. Lee, H.C. Connolly Jr., S.G. Love and H. Sheng (2000) Formation of chondrules and CAIs: Theory vs. observation. In Protostars and Planets IV (eds. V. Mannings, A.P. Boss, S.S. Russell), pp. 927-962. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. Reviews literature on nebular heat sources needed to account for chondrules & CAIs.
 

1. (E-RESERVE)
Wood J.A. (1988) Chondritic meteorites and the solar nebula. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 16, 53-72. Reviews the nebular history of planetary material as recorded by chondrites. NOTE: THIS IS INCORRECTLY LABELED IN THE E-RESERVE AS BY "BOYNTON ET AL. (1985).

2. (COURSEPACK)
Boynton W.V. (1985) Meteoritic evidence concerning conditions in the solar nebula. In Protostars and Planets II (eds. D.C. Black and M.S. Mathhews), pp. 772-787. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. Emphasizes evidence for chemical fractionations in the solar nebula.

3. (COURSEPACK)
Palme H. and W.V. Boynton (1993) Meteoritic constraints on conditions in the solar nebula. In Protostars and Planets III (eds. E.H. Levy and J.I. Lunine), pp. 979-1004. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. Emphasizes how the composition of chondrites and the their components provides info about regional and local volatility-controlled environments in the solar nebula.
 

1. (COURSEPACK)
Goswami J.N. and H.A.T. Vanhala (2000) Extinct radionuclides and the origin of the solar system. In Protostars and Planets IV (eds. V. Mannings, A.P. Boss, S.S. Russell), pp. 963-994. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. Reviews evidence for short-lived nuclides in meteorites, their sources, and argues for supernova-trigger for origin of solar system.

2. (COURSEPACK)
Wadwha M. and S.S. Russell (2000) Timescales of accretion and differentiation in the early solar system: the meteoritic evidence. In Protostars and Planets IV (eds. V. Mannings, A.P. Boss, S.S. Russell), pp. 995-1018. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. Discusses ages of CAIs, chondrules, and differentiated meteorites.

3. (INTERNET)
See http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?2001M%26PS...36.1017L&data_type=PDF_HIGH&whole_paper=YES&type=PRINTER&filetype=.pdf
Lugmair G.W. and A. Shukolyukov (2001) Early solar system events and timescales. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 36, 1017-1026. Uses Al-Mg and Mn-Cr systems for CAIs, chondrules, and differentiated meteorites to derive controversial model linking all three.
 

1. (2-HOUR RESERVE)
McSween H.Y., Jr. (1988) Thermal metamorphism. In Meteorites and the Early Solar System (eds. J.F. Kerridge and M.S. Matthews), pp. 102-113. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. Basics about thermal metamorphism in ordinary chondrites.
 

1. (2-HOUR RESERVE)
Zolensky M. and H.Y. McSween, Jr. (1988) Aqueous alteration. In Meteorites and the Early Solar System (eds. J.F. Kerridge and M.S. Matthews), pp. 114-143. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. Basics about aqueous alteration in carbonaceous & ordinary chondrites.
 

1. (2-HOUR RESERVE)
Cronin J.R., S. Pizzarello and D.P. Cruikshank (1988) Organic matter in carbonaceous chondrites, planetary satellites, asteroids and comets. In Meteorites and the Early Solar System (eds. J.F. Kerridge and M.S. Matthews), pp. 819-857. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. A primer about organic matter in carbonacoeus chondrites.

2. (COURSEPACK)
Kerridge J.F. and S.Chang (1985) In Protostars and Planets II (eds. D.C. Black and M.S. Mathhews), pp. 738-754. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. Argues for pre-solar origin for carbonaceous material in chondrites.
 

1. (E-RESERVE)
Zinner E. (1998) Stellar nucleosynthesis and isotopic composition of presolar grains from primitive meteorites. In Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 26, 147-188. A review of pre-solar grains in meteorites.
 

1. (E-RESERVE)
McSween (1989) Achondrites and igneous processes on asteroids. Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 17, 119-140. Reviews differentiated stony meteorites.

2. (E-RESERVE)
Wasson (1985) Iron meteorites: Evidence for and against core origins. In Meteorites- Their Record of Early Solar-system History, Ch. IV, pp.76-99. W.H. Freeman & Co.: New York. Good discussion of planetary heat sources, igneous origin of iron meteorites and pallasites.
 

1. (INTERNET)
See http://www.lpi.usra.edu/books/AsteroidsIII/pdf/3002.pdf
McSween H.Y., Jr, A. Ghosh, R.E. Grimm, L. Wilson, E.D. Young (2002) Thermal evolution models of asteroids. In Asteroids III (eds. W.F. Bottke, Jr., A. Cellino, P. Paolicchi, R.P. Binzel, pp. 559-571. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. Discusses models to account for thermal metamorphism, aqueous alteration and melting & differentiation of meteorite parent bodies.
 

1. (2-HOUR RESERVE)
Stoffler D., A. Bischoff, V. Buchwald and A.E. Rubin (1988) Shock effects in meteorites. In Meteorites and the Early Solar System (eds. J.F. Kerridge and M.S. Matthews), pp. 165-202. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. Primer on shock processes as recorded by meteorites.

2. (E-RESERVE)
Scott E.R.D. and R.S. Rajan (1981) Metallic minerals, thermal histories and parent bodies of some xenolithic, ordinary chondrite meteorites. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 45, 53-67. Argues for collisional disruption and reassembly of ordinary chondrite parent bodies based on metallographic cooling rates.
 

1. (INTERNET)
See http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?db_key=AST&bibcode=1994Metic..29..757M&letter=.&classic=YES&defaultprint=YES&whole_paper=YES&page=757&epage=757&send=Send+PDF&filetype=.pdf
McSween H.Y. Jr. (1994) What we have learned about Mars from SNC meteorites. Meteoritics 29, 757-779. Best overall review of SNC meteorites and why we think they are from Mars.