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• The Fire People (as published in Argosy-AllStory Weekly, 1922), by Ray Cummings (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Quantum Connection (included on a Baen CD image), by Travis S. Taylor
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• La chasse au météore (in French), by Jules Verne, illust. by George Roux (Gutenberg ebook)
• Meteor strike!, by Donald E. Westlake, illust. by Virgil Finlay (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Crystal Circe, by Henry Kuttner, illust. by John B. Musacchia (Gutenberg ebook)

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• Physics of Meteor Flight in the Atmosphere (New York and London: Interscience Publishers, 1958), by Ernst Julius Öpik (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traces of Catastrophe: A Handbook of Shock-Metamorphic Effects in Terrestrial Meteorite Impact Structures (Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, c1998), by Bevan M. French (PDF files at usra.edu)
• Comets and meteors: their phenomena in all ages; their mutual relations; and the theory of their origin. (J.B. Lippincott & co., 1873), by Daniel Kirkwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The metallography of meteoric iron (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1944), by Stuart Hoffman Perry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Telescopic work for starlight evenings. (Taylor and Francis, 1891), by William F. Denning (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comets and meteors ([Chicago?], 1910), by John R. Kippax (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comets and meteor streams. (Wiley, 1952), by John Guy Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meteoric astronomy: a treatise on shooting-stars, fire-balls, and aerolites. (J.B. Lippincott & co., 1867), by Daniel Kirkwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meteors (Williams & Wilkins company, 1925), by Charles P. Olivier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meteors, aerolites, and falling stars. (L. Reeve & co., 1867), by T. L. Phipson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Études géométriques sur les étoiles filantes. (F. Blanc, imprimeur, 1868), by Charles Moise Goulier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le opere di G. V. Schiaparelli. (U. Hoepli, 1929), by G. V. Schiaparelli and Osservatorio astronomico di Brera (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The determination of meteor-orbits in the solar system (Smithsonian Institution, 1917), by Gustav Niessl von Mayendorf and Cleveland Abbe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Between the planets (The Blakiston company, 1941), by Fletcher G. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The luminosity of meteors, comets, and the solar corona, of meteor trains, fire balls, the aurora borealis, zodiacal light and gegenschein (University lithoprinters, 1940), by Elliott Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• A goodly gallerye with a most pleasaunt prospect, into the garden of naturall contemplation, to behold the naturall causes of all kynde of meteors, as wel fyery and ayery, as watry and earthly, of whiche sort be blasing starres, shooting starres, flames in the ayrd &c. Thöder, lightning, earthquakes, &c. rayne, dews, snowe, cloudes, springes &c. stones, metalles, earthes &c. to the glory of God, and the profit of his creaturs. (Printed by [William Griffith], 1563), by William Fulke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Volantis flammæ a perillustri, & excellentissimo d. Geminiano Montanario ... examinatæ epitropeia (ex typographia Manoiessiana, 1677), by Domenico Guglielmini and Geminiano Mantanari (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoria sopra il bolide degli XI settembre MDCCLXXXIV, e sopra i bolidi in generale (Nella stamperia reale, 1786), by Anton Maria Vassalli-Eandi (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to the study of meteorites : with a list of the meteorites represented in the collection (Printed by order of the Trustees, 1914), by British Museum (Natural History). Department of Mineralogy and L. Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meteornaia materiia v mezhduplanetnom prostranstve (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1965), by V. G. Fesenkov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gisawornerě : zhoghovrdakan patmutʻiwn ew batsʻatrutʻiwn amēn tesak gisaworneru. (Gratun P. Palentsʻ, 1910) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Meteor orbits and dust; the proceedings of a symposium. (Scientific and Technical Information Division, National Aeronautics and Space administration; [for sale by the Supt. Of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1967), by Mass.) Symposium on Meteor Orbits and Dust (1965 : Cambridge and Gerald S. Hawkins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Meteors and meteorites (Franklin Institute, 1944), by Roy K. Marshall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die kometen und meteore in allgemein fasslicher form dargestellt (G. Freytag, 1884), by Wilhelm Valentiner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The progress of meteoric astronomy in America : read before the Philosophical Society of Washington, April 12, 1890 (The Society, 1890), by J. R. Eastman and Philosophical Society of Washington (D.C.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Texas meteor of October 1, 1917 (The University, 1917), by Johan August Udden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romance of comets (Harper & brothers, 1926), by Mary Proctor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 175 parabolic orbits and other results deduced from over 6,200 meteors (Published by the American Philosophical Society, 1911), by Charles P. Olivier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beobachtungn über die sternschnuppen angestellt auf den sternwarten zu Göttingen und Münster, nebst daraus abgeleiteten resultaten. (Göttingen : Druck von E. A. Huth, 1886., 1886), by Carl Behrmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meteore und feuerkugeln : Mit einer anleitung zum notiren der meteorbahnen (Herder, 1890), by Joseph Plassmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Komety i padai︠u︡shchii︠a︡ zvi︠e︡zdy. (S. Peterburg, 1881), by S. P. Glazenap (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die grosse Feuerkugel, welche am Abende des 4. März 1863 in Holland, Deutschland, Belgien und England gesehen worden ist (Schmidt, 1863), by Eduard Heis (page images at HathiTrust)
• On meteors in the southern hemisphere (Schneider, 1867), by Eduard Heis and Georg Balthasar von Neumayer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unterhaltungen für Freunde der Physik und Astronomie (J.A. Barth, 1825), by H. W. Brandes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les météores ... (Hachette, 1867), by Élie Margollé and Frederic Zurcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber die Bestimmung der geographischen Länge durch Sternschuppen. (F. Perthes, 1802), by J. F. Benzenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sur les propriétés importantes des courants météoriques. (Moscow, 1890), by F. A. Bredikhin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Verzeichniss der meteoriten-sammlung der Universität Dorpat im december 1882. ([Dorpat, 1882), by Tartu Ülikool (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sur les étoiles filantes (Gauthier-Villars, 1894), by Leopold Schulhof (page images at HathiTrust)
• Resultate der in den 43 Jahren 1833-1875 angestellten Sternschnuppen-Beobachtungen (Aschendorff'sche Akademische Buchdruckerei, 1877), by Eduard Heis and Universität Münster. Sternwarte. Veroffentlichung (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der farbenwechsel grosser meteore. (Druck von E. Karras, g.m.b.h., 1918), by Alfred Wegener (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Quarterly progress report on a study of meteoroid impact phenomena (Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, Inc., 1962), by William Joseph Rae and Henry Paul Kirchner (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to the study of meteorites, with a list of meteorites represented in the collection on Jan 1, 1904. (Printed by order of the Trustees, 1904), by British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Mineralogy and L. Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Os cometas e as estrellas cadentes ([s.n.], 1910), by Camille Flammarion and José Vinagre (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Comets and shooting stars (Cassell and Co., 1910), by Robert S. Ball (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les radiants cométaires et la connexion entre les comètes et les courants météoriques (Tipographia Gubernskago Pravlenia, 1919), by K. Pokrovskii and G. Schaine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ueber Feuer-Meteore : und über die mit denselben herabgefallenen Massen (J.G. Heubner, 1819), by Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni, Karl von Schreibers, and Vienna (Austria). K.K. Hof-mineralien-kabinet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Versuche die Entfernung, die Geschwindigkeit und die Bahnen der Sternschnuppen zu bestimmen (F. Perthes, 1800), by J. F. Benzenberg and H. W. Brandes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The NBS meteor-burst propagation project : a progress report (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Office of Technical Services, 1960), by Charles E. Hornback, George R. Sugar, and Louis D. Breyfogle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Atmospheric entry and fragmentation of dense meteoroids (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office ;, 1979), by T. Dale Bess, Langley Research Center, and United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Physical and dynamical studies of meteors : meteor-fragmentation and stream-distribution studies (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1975), by Zdenek Sekanina, Richard B. Southworth, and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Physical and dynamical studies of meteors (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1973), by Richard B. Southworth, Zdenek Sekanina, and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Determination of meteoroid environments from photographic meteor data (National Aeronautics and Space Administration; [for sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Springfield, Va.], 1969), by Charles C. Dalton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Unaccelerated geocentric velocities and influx rates of sporadic photographic meteors (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1969), by C. D. Miller, United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Lewis Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spectral analysis of a high-velocity meteor (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1977), by Gale A. Harvey and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Empirical analysis of unaccelerated velocity and mass distributions of photographic meteors (National Aeronautics and Space Administration; [for sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Springfield, Va.], 1970), by Cearcy D. Miller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Photographic photometry of artificial meteors (National Aeronautics and Space Administration; for sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Springfield, Va., 1968), by Wendell G. Ayers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mass influx obtained from LLLTV observations of faint meteors (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1972), by Robert J. Naumann, K. Stuart Clifton, and George C. Marshall Space Flight Center. Space Sciences Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Photometry of spectrograms of three artificial meteors (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1967), by Gale A. Harvey, United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• The near-earth meteoroid environment (National Aeronautics and Space Administration; for sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Springfield, Va., 1966), by Robert J. Naumann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Effect on meteor flight of cooling by radiation and ablation (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1965), by H. Julian Allen, Nataline A. James, Barrett S. Baldwin, Ames Research Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'origine des étoiles filantes (C. Muquardt, Librairie Européene, 1869), by R. Brück (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches sur les étoiles filantes : introduction historique (L. Hachette, 1847), by Rémi Armand Coulvier-Gravier and Jacques Frederic Saigey (page images at HathiTrust)
• New pages of natural history. (T. Cautley Newby, 1868), by H. P. Malet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unterhaltungen für freunde der physik und astronomie (J.A. Barth, 1825), by H. W. Brandes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches sur les météores et sur les lois qui les régissent (H. Plon, 1866), by Rémi Armand Coulvier-Gravier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Otot ha-shamayim, nefilat kokhve esh, yeridat avne elgavish, śerefat ʻolam u-meloʾah. (Bi-defus L. Niṭshe eṭ A. Tsederboym, 1868), by Ḥayyim Selig Slonimski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches sur les étoiles filantes ... : introduction historique (L. Hachette, 1847), by directeur de l'Observatoire météorologique du Luxembourg Coulvier-Gravier, Jacques Frédéric Saigey, and Jacques Frederic Saigey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meteor burst communication system : Alaska winter field test program (Office of Hydrology, National Weather Service, 1976), by H. S. Santeford and United States. Office of Hydrology (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meteoriter och kometer. Populära före-drag. (F. & G. Beijer, 1874), by Carl Fabian Emanuel Björling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Sternschnuppen (Perthes, Besser und Maure, 1839), by J. F. Benzenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• A goodly gallerye with a most pleasaunt prospect, into the garden of naturall contemplation, to behold the naturall causes of all kynde of meteors ... (Londoni, 1563), by William Fulke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber Feuer-Meteore, und Über die mit denselben herabgefallenen Massen (Im Verlage bey J. G. Heubner, 1976), by Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni, Karl von Schreibers, and Vienna (Austria). Hof-Mineralien Kabinet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Messengers from the skies read before the Hamilton Association, February 25th, 1892 (s.n., 1892), by H. Beaumont Small and Hamilton Scientific Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• An extraordinary meteoric display ([s.n.], 1913), by Clarence Augustus Chant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Origine des météores cosmiques (Tipografi︠̈a︡ Imperatorskoĭ akademïi nauk ;, 1903), by F. A. Bredikhin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Telescopic work for starlight evenings. (Taylor and Francis, 1891), by William F. Denning (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meteors and meteorites (University of Oklahoma, 1948), by C. A. Merritt and J. Willis Stovall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Proceedings of the Symposium on the Astronomy and Physics of Meteors held at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Cambridge, Massachusetts 28 August - 1 September 1961 (Bedford, Massachusetts : Geophysics Research Directorate, Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Office of Aerospace Research, United States, 1962., 1962), by Mass.) Symposium on the Astronomy and Physics of Meteors (1961 : Cambridge, Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.). Geophysics Research Directorate, and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Results from the AFCRL radar meteor trail set (L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts : Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Air Force Systems Command, United States Air Force, 1972., 1972), by Arnold A. Barnes, Joseph J. Pazniokas, and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Radar meteor winds at Eglin AFB, Florida (Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Air Force Systems Command, United States Air Force, 1972), by Arnold A. Barnes and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Radar meteor trail task : final report (L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts : Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Air Force Systems Command, United States Air Force, 1972., 1972), by Arnold A. Barnes and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliography of lunar and planetary research - 1963 (L.G. Hanscom Field, Massachusetts : Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Office of Aerospace Research, United States Air Force, 1964., 1964), by John W. Salisbury, V. G. Smalley, Robert T. Dodd, J. E. Adler, R. A. Van Tassel, and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bahnbestimmung des Meteors vom 23. Oct. 1887. (1887), by Gustav Niessl von Mayendorf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Entwurf einer astronomischen Theorie der Sternschnuppen (Th. von der Nahmer, 1871), by J. V. Schiaparelli and Georg v Boguslawski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kometen und Meteore (Kosmos, Gesellschaft der Naturfreunde, 1907), by M. W. Meyer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Influence of atmospheric density variations of solar origin on meteor rates (Boulder, Colo. : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Environmental Science Services Administration, Institute for Telecommunication Sciences, 1968., 1968), by C. D. Ellyett, United States. Environmental Science Services Administration. Research Laboratories, and Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tables of meteor ablation (Boulder, Colo. : U.S. Department of Commerce, Environmental Science Services Administration, Institutes for Environmental Research, Institute for Telecommunication Sciences and Aeronomy, 1967., 1967), by M. Gadsden, Institutes for Environmental Research, Institute for Telecommunication Sciences and Aeronomy (U.S.), and United States. Environmental Science Services Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meteoric astronomy: a treatise on shooting-stars, fireballs, and aerolites. (J. B. Lippincott & co., 1867), by Daniel Kirkwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The meteoric theory of Saturn's rings considered with reference to the solar motion in space : also a paper on the meteoric theory of the Sun (Longmans, Green and Co., 1871), by Augustus Morse Davies, Edward Sabine, and Burndy Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spina celeste meteora osseruata in Bologna il mese di marzo M.DC.LXVIII (per Emilio Maria, e Fratelli de Manolessi, 1668), by Giovanni Domenico Cassini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meteor heights from photographs. (Cambridge, Mass. : Observatory, 1931., 1931), by Margaret Olmsted (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Sonnensystem (J. Springer, 1929), by Giorgio Abetti, Samuel Alfred Mitchell, August Kopff, K. Graff, and Walter E. Bernheimer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The romance of comets, by Mary Proctor (Gutenberg ebook)
• Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings, by William F. Denning (Gutenberg ebook)
• Meteoric astronomy: A treatise on shooting-stars, fire-balls, and aerolites, by Daniel Kirkwood (Gutenberg ebook)
• Comets and Meteors: Their phenomena in all ages; their mutual relations; and the theory of their origin., by Daniel Kirkwood (Gutenberg ebook)
• Conjectures upon the nature and motion of meteors, which are above the atmosphere. By Thomas Clap, A.M. late president of Yale-College. (Norwich [Conn.]: : Printed by John Trumbull, for the subscribers., M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]), by Thomas Clap (HTML at Evans TCP)

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