Derek Sears

Bay Area Environmental Research Institute/NASA Ames Research Center/University of Arkansas

RESEARCH ON THE HISTORY OF METEORITICS AND PLANETARY SCIENCE

Edward Howard (center) as he appears in an engraving at the Royal Institution. On either side of Howard are geologist William Smith (left) and chemist Willian Allen. The engraving is a copy of a profile in bronze probably made posthumously. Howard performed the first modern analysis on meteorites and concluded that because of their similarity, regardless of where they fell on Earth, that they were extraterrestrial. In recognition of his importance to meteorite research, the howardite meteorite class is named after him.

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The history of research in meteoritics and planetary science

Oral histories in meteoritics and planetary science

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