Story: Meteorites

More links and websites

• The Mokoia Aerolite

  A detailed account (PDF, 4.25 MB) of the fall of the Mokoia meteorite on 26th November 1908, written by G. A. Marriner, curator of the Wanganui Museum. The paper also describes the two other meteorites that had been previously identified in New Zealand. It was published in the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute (1910).

More suggestions and sources

• Grady, Monica M. Catalogue of meteorites, 5th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• Hutchison, Robert, and Andrew Graham. Meteorites. London: Natural History Museum, 1992.
• Mason, Brian. Meteorites. New York: Wiley, 1962.
• Mason, Brian, and Simon Nathan. From mountains to meteorites. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication 109. Lower Hutt: Geological Society of New Zealand: 2001.
• Sipiera, P. P. Meteorite: the extraterrestrial. Alpha Series 35. Wellington: Dept of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1983.