George Wetherill
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George Wetherill's Degrees
- PhD Physics University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, George Wetherill was a physicist and geologist and the director emeritus of the department of terrestrial magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, DC, US. In 2000, Wetherill received the J. Lawrence Smith Medal from the National Academy of Sciences "For his unique contributions to the cosmochronology of the planets and meteorites and to the orbital dynamics and formation of solar system bodies." In 2003, Wetherill received the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, the highest honor bestowed by the American Astronomical Society, "For pioneering the application of modern physics and numerical simulations to the formation and evolution of terrestrial planets."
George Wetherill's Published Works
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Published Works
- Kinetic analysis of lead metabolism in healthy humans. (1976) (665)
- Discordant uranium‐lead ages, I (1956) (596)
- Making the Terrestrial Planets: N-Body Integrations of Planetary Embryos in Three Dimensions (1998) (485)
- Accumulation of a swarm of small planetesimals (1989) (457)
- The Stability of Multi-Planet Systems (1996) (398)
- Formation of planetary embryos: effects of fragmentation, low relative velocity, and independent variation of eccentricity and inclination. (1993) (354)
- Formation of the Earth (1990) (304)
- Collisions in the asteroid belt (1967) (290)
- Formation of the Terrestrial Planets (1980) (280)
- Occurrence of Giant Impacts During the Growth of the Terrestrial Planets (1985) (229)
- Lead Metabolism in the Normal Human: Stable Isotope Studies (1973) (190)
- Effect of food intake and fasting on gastrointestinal lead absorption in humans. (1980) (190)
- Late Heavy Bombardment of the Moon and Terrestrial Planets (1975) (184)
- An alternative model for the formation of the asteroids (1992) (171)
- Variations in the Isotopic Abundances of Neon and Argon Extracted from Radioactive Minerals (1954) (163)
- The Formation and Habitability of Extra-Solar Planets (1996) (152)
- Planets in the asteroid belt (2001) (140)
- Spontaneous Fission Yields from Uranium and Thorium (1953) (139)
- Provenance of the terrestrial planets. (1994) (134)
- Dynamical chemical and isotopic evidence regarding the formation locations of asteroids and meteorites. (1979) (134)
- ASTEROIDAL SOURCE OF ORDINARY CHONDRITES (1985) (134)
- Formation of gas giant planets: core accretion models with fragmentation and planetary envelope (2003) (126)
- Accumulation of the terrestrial planets and implications concerning lunar origin (1986) (126)
- Evolution of planetesimal velocities (1988) (125)
- High-Accuracy Statistical Simulation of Planetary Accretion: II. Comparison with N-Body Simulation (2001) (123)
- Where do the Apollo objects come from (1988) (121)
- Identifying sources of lead contamination by stable isotope techniques (1972) (111)
- Size Distribution of Collisionally Evolved Asteroidal Populations: Analytical Solution for Self-Similar Collision Cascades (1994) (106)
- Steady state populations of Apollo-Amor objects (1979) (106)
- The orbit and atmospheric trajectory of the Peekskill meteorite from video records (1994) (106)
- Solar System Sources of Meteorites and Large Meteoroids (1974) (102)
- Radiometric Chronology of the Early Solar System (1975) (102)
- The Earth and Planetary Sciences (1980) (94)
- Comparison of analytical and physical modeling of planetesimal accumulation (1990) (93)
- Discordant uranium‐lead ages: 2. Disordant ages resulting from diffusion of lead and uranium (1963) (86)
- An interpretation of the Rhodesia and Witwatersrand age patterns (1956) (85)
- Isotopic ages of zircon from granites and pegmatites (1957) (85)
- Magnitude of lead intake from respiration by normal man. (1977) (84)
- Half-Life of Rb 87 (1956) (84)
- Dynamical relations between asteroids, meteorites and Apollo-Amor objects (1987) (78)
- The role of large bodies in the formation of the earth and moon (1976) (77)
- Studies of Human Lead Metabolism by Use of Stable Isotope Tracers (1974) (75)
- 3600-m.y. RbSr ages from very early Archaean gneisses from Saglek Bay, Labrador (1975) (75)
- Accumulation of Mercury from planetesimals (1988) (73)
- Where do the meteorites come from? A re-evaluation of the earth-crossing apollo objects as sources of chondritic meteorites☆ (1976) (73)
- Possible consequences of absence of “jupiters” in planetary systems (1994) (73)
- Geochronology by Radioactive Decay (1958) (72)
- radioactive ages of micas from granitic rocks by Rb-Sr and K-A methods (1958) (69)
- Which fireballs are meteorites? A study of the Prairie Network photographic meteor data (1981) (68)
- Rapid Formation of Ice Giant Planets (2001) (68)
- Age Measurements on Rocks from the Finnish Precambrian (1962) (67)
- Occurrence of Earth-Like Bodies in Planetary Systems (1991) (66)
- Orbital evolution of impact ejecta from Mars. (1984) (63)
- A study of the ages of the Precambrian of Texas (1962) (60)
- The range of validity of the two-body approximation in models of terrestrial planet accumulation: II. Gravitational cross sections and runaway accretion (1985) (57)
- Runaway Growth of Planetary Embryos Facilitated by Massive Bodies in a Protoplanetary Disk (2001) (57)
- Solar wind origin of Ar-36 on Venus (1981) (57)
- Isotopic composition and concentration of molybdenum in iron meteorites (1964) (55)
- AGES OF MINERALS FROM THE BALTIMORE GNEISS NEAR BALTIMORE, MARYLAND (1958) (54)
- Evaluation of the Apollo Asteroids as Sources of Stone Meteorites (1968) (52)
- Stone Meteorites: Time of Fall and Origin (1968) (52)
- Terrestrial planet and asteroid formation in the presence of giant planets. I. Relative velocities of planetesimals subject to Jupiter and Saturn perturbations. (2000) (52)
- OCCURRENCE OF 1350 MILLION-YEAR-OLD GRANITIC ROCKS IN WESTERN UNITED STATES (1957) (51)
- Origin and evolution of planetary and satellite atmospheres (1990) (51)
- Collision of astronomically observable bodies with the Earth (1982) (51)
- End Products of Cometary Evolution: Cometary Origin of Earth-Crossing Bodies of Asteroidal Appearance (1989) (50)
- Evolution of the Earth's Planetesimal Swarm Subsequent to the Formation of the Earth and Moon (1977) (47)
- Asteroidal Source of Meteorites (1973) (43)
- Ages in the Precambrian Terrane of Death Valley, California (1959) (43)
- Origin of the asteroid belt. (1989) (42)
- The range of validity of the two-body approximation in models of terrestrial planet accumulation: I. Gravitational perturbations (1984) (42)
- 1000-Million-Year-Old Minerals from the Eastern United States and Canada (1960) (41)
- Rb87-Sr87 age of bronzite (H Group) chondrites (1969) (40)
- Formation of the Neptune system (1995) (40)
- Mineral Ages from the Appalachian Province in North Carolina and Tennessee (1962) (39)
- Mineral ages from the Wichita and Arbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma, and the St. Francis Mountains, Missouri (1962) (38)
- Rubidium‐strontium age of amphoterite (LL) chondrites (1969) (38)
- Chondrites: Initial Strontium-87/Strontium-86 Ratios and the Early History of the Solar System (1973) (34)
- Nature and origin of basin-forming projectiles (1980) (34)
- Decay Constants of K40 as Determined by the Radiogenic Argon Content of Potassium Minerals (1956) (34)
- Radioactivity of Potassium and Geologic Time. (1957) (33)
- RbSr studies of CI and CM chondrites (1976) (33)
- Origin of differentiated meteorites (1979) (33)
- Delayed appearance of tracer lead in facial hair. (1976) (32)
- Rubidium-strontium age of hypersthene (L) chondrites (1968) (32)
- Cratering of the terrestrial planets by Apollo objects (1989) (31)
- Primary and metamorphic Rb-Sr chronology in Central Colorado (1965) (31)
- Rubidium‐strontium studies on black hypersthene chondrites: Effects of shock and reheating (1971) (30)
- Dynamical Studies of Asteroidal and Cometary Orbits and their Relation to the Origin of Meteorites (1968) (30)
- Multiple cosmic-ray exposure ages of meteorites (1980) (30)
- Rubidium 87–strontium 87 age of carbonaceous chondrites (1970) (30)
- Accumulation of the Terrestrial Planets (1985) (29)
- Steady-State Calculations Bearing on Geological Implications of a Phase-Transition Mohorovicic Discontinuity (1961) (28)
- PRE-MARE CRATERING AND EARLY SOLAR SYSTEM HISTORY (1974) (27)
- Age measurements in the Maryland Piedmont (1966) (27)
- Relationships Between Orbits and Sources of Chondritic Meteorites (1969) (26)
- Rb-Sr Measurements on Whole Rocks and Separated Minerals from the Baltimore Gneiss, Maryland (1968) (26)
- Planetary Accumulation with a Continuous Supply of Planetesimals (2000) (24)
- Secular resonances and cometary orbits in the β Pictoris system (1994) (23)
- Rb-Sr and U, Th-Pb ages of lunar materials (1970) (22)
- Precambrian Rb-Sr Chronology in the Needle Mountains, (1969) (22)
- Rubidium-strontium studies on enstatite chondrites: Whole meteorite and mineral isochrons (1970) (21)
- Periodic Trojan-type orbits in the earth-sun system (1973) (21)
- Lunar Interior: Constraint on Basaltic Composition (1968) (21)
- Meteorites: Unexpected Antarctic chemistry (1986) (20)
- The beginning of continental evolution (1972) (20)
- How special is Jupiter? (1995) (20)
- Unexpected Antarctic chemistry (1986) (20)
- Of Time and the Moon (1971) (20)
- SECTION 23: RADIOACTIVE DECAY CONSTANTS AND ENERGIES (1966) (18)
- Grain abundance in the primordial atmosphere of the earth (1984) (18)
- The distribution of trace quantities of germanium between metal, silicate and sulflde phases (1968) (17)
- Accretion of the Terrestrial Planets (1977) (16)
- Cometary Versus Asteroidal Origin of Chondritic Meteorites (1971) (16)
- The formation of the solar system: consensus, alternatives, and missing factors. (1989) (16)
- Rb‐Sr and K‐A ages of rocks in Ontario and northern Minnesota (1960) (15)
- Rb-Sr and U, Th-Pb measurements on Apollo 12 materials (1971) (15)
- The fall of the Peekskill meteorite: Video observations, atmospheric path, fragmentation record and orbit. (1995) (14)
- Rb-Sr age of lunar igneous rocks 62295 and 14310 (1974) (14)
- Dynamical evidence regarding the relationship between asteroids and meteorites (1978) (13)
- 3. Fragmentation of Asteroids and Delivery of Fragments to Earth (1977) (13)
- COLLECTING A SAMPLE OF SOLAR WIND: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF ITS CAPTURE IN METAL FILMS. (1969) (13)
- Problems associated with estimating the relative impact rates on mars and the moon (1974) (12)
- Video observations, atmospheric path, orbit and fragmentation record of the fall of the Peekskill meteorite. (1996) (12)
- Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Vol._3. (1973) (12)
- Rb-Sr studies of lunar breccias and soils (1973) (11)
- Rubidium-Strontium, Uranium, and Thorium-Lead Dating of Lunar Material (1970) (11)
- The formation of the earth from planetesimals (1981) (11)
- Possible Slow Accretion of the Moon and its Thermal and Petrological Consequences (1975) (10)
- Asteroidal source of ordinary chondrites (Meteoritical Society Presidential Address 1984) (1985) (10)
- Comments on the paper by C. R. Chapman: Chronology of terrestrial planet evolution—the evidence from Mercury (1976) (9)
- Metamorphism of Precambrian Granitic Xenoliths in a Mica Peridotite at Rose Dome, Woodson County, Kansas: Part 1, Rb-Sr Isotopic Studies (1971) (8)
- Rb-Sr Age Determinations of the Nipissing Diabase, North Shore of Lake Huron, Ontario, Canada (1963) (8)
- Equilibration and ages - Rb-Sr studies of breccias 14321 and 15265 (1974) (7)
- Video observations, atmospheric path, orbit and fragmentation record of the fall of the Peekskill meteorite (1996) (7)
- Numerical Integration Study of Primordial Clearing of the Asteroid Belt (1997) (6)
- Contemplation of Things Past (1998) (5)
- Suppression of Spurious Ions in the Mass Spectrometer (1951) (4)
- Rubidium‐strontium isotope characteristics of lunar soils (1972) (4)
- Comments on paper by D. E. Fisher and M. F. Swanson, ‘Frequency distribution of meteorite‐Earth collisions’ (1969) (4)
- Identifying sources of lead contamination by stable isotope techniques. Reply to comments. (1973) (3)
- Age of the Base of the Cambrian (1960) (3)
- More on Rb-Sr in lunar breccia 14321 (1975) (3)
- Formation of the terrestrial planets from planetesimals (1991) (3)
- K, Rb, and Sr Measurements in Apollo 14 and 15 Material (1972) (3)
- Comparison of Numerical Integration and 'Gas Dynamic' Modelling of Runaway Planetesimal Growth (1996) (3)
- The Formation Of Habitable Planetary Systems (1996) (2)
- New Formulas for the Evolution of Planetesimal Velocities (1986) (2)
- K-Ar dating of Precambrian Rocks (1966) (2)
- N-Body Simulations of the Formation of the Inner Planets (1996) (2)
- Factors Controlling Early Runaway Growth of Planetesimals (1987) (2)
- Comet exploration - Scientific objectives and mission strategy for arendezvous with comet Encke (1973) (2)
- Physical Science Today (1973) (2)
- Planetary science. How special is Jupiter? (1995) (2)
- Gas Drag Effects on Planetesimals Evolving Under the Influence of Jupiter and Saturn (1997) (2)
- Formation of the Asteroid Belt (2000) (2)
- Ways that Our Solar System Helps Us Understand the Formation of Other Planetary Systems and Ways that it Doesn’t (1996) (2)
- Mutual Gravitational and Collisional Scattering of Bodies in the Asteroid Belt (1968) (1)
- Preatmospheric Velocities of Meteorites (1978) (1)
- Runway Planetesimal Growth: Agreement Between Analytical Solution of the Coagulation Equation and the Results of Numerical Physical Modelling (1990) (1)
- Search for natural curium 247 (1964) (1)
- Formation of the Asteroids (1996) (1)
- Origin of the Earth (1991) (1)
- The President's Page: Something in common (guest editorial) (1972) (1)
- Ways that our Solar System helps us understand the formation of other planetary systems and ways that it doesn't (1996) (1)
- Equilibrium models of mass distribution and collisional lifetimes of asteroids (1993) (1)
- Quantitative Calculation of Meteorite Flux from Various Regions of the Inner Asteroid Belt (1985) (1)
- What's coming down? New Canadian fireball data (1996) (1)
- Estimate of Terrestrial Flux of Large Meteoroids Using Atmospheric Waves (1978) (1)
- Merle A. Tuve: 1901–1982 (1982) (1)
- SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION OF PRE‐CAMBRIAN MINERAL AGES FROM THE APPALACHIAN PROVINCE (1961) (1)
- Physical Study of Comets Minor Planets and Meteorites (1977) (1)
- The Asteroidal Source Region of Ordinary Chondrites (1984) (1)
- Numerical Integrations of the Accretion of Planetary Embryos (1996) (1)
- Accumulation of the Planets (1987) (1)
- AGE MEASUREMENTS ON THE CUTLER BATHOLITH, ONTARIO, CANADA (1961) (1)
- Leonard Medal Citation for Victor Sergeivitch Safronov (1989) (1)
- Atmospheric waves from large meteors (1980) (1)
- Giant and large impacts in the context of planetary formation theory (1992) (0)
- Dynamical Evolution of Planetary Embryos (2002) (0)
- Are Main-belt Asteroids a Sufficient Source for the Earth-Approachers? (1995) (0)
- Celestial Mechanics. (Book Reviews: Interplanetary Encounters. Close-Range Gravitational Interactions) (1976) (0)
- COMMISSION 15: PHYSICAL STUDY OF COMETS, MINOR PLANETS AND METEORITES (L'ETUDE PHYSIQUE PES COMETS, PES PETITES PLANETES ET PES METEORITES) PRESIDENT: B. D. Donn VICE PRESIDENTS: B. J. Levin SECRETARY: J. Rahe (2015) (0)
- Accumulation of the Earth from Runaway Embryos (1988) (0)
- Dynamical Stability of Systems of Planetary Embryos (1995) (0)
- General discussion after session III (1988) (0)
- Solar System Formation and Highland Cratering (1979) (0)
- Formation of the Moon in the Context of the Origin of the Solar System (1989) (0)
- Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Volume_8. (1973) (0)
- Cometary vs Asteroidal Origin of Chondritic Meteorites (Abstract) (1971) (0)
- The Final Accretion Stage of the Terrestrial Planets (1995) (0)
- Celestial Mechanics: Interplanetary Encounters . Close-Range Gravitational Interactions. Ernst J. Öpik. Elsevier, New York, 1976. viii, 156 pp., illus. $26.95. Developments in Solar System- and Space Science, 2. (1976) (0)
- N 91-22968 Formation of the Terrestrial Planets from Planetesimals (0)
- Planetesimal Dynamics in a Protoplanetary Disk Perturbed by Massive Companions (1999) (0)
- Rubidium-strontium age of hypersthene (1968) (0)
- KUIPER PRIZE LECTURE ( Where Do the Apollo-Amor Objects Come From? ) (1986) (0)
- Celestial mechanics (1985) (0)
- Space missions to comets. A conference held at the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, October 1977. (1979) (0)
- Wetherill receives 1991 Hess medal (1992) (0)
- Rb super 87 -Sr super 87 age of bronzite (1969) (0)
- IRAS and the Asteroids (1980) (0)
- Formation of Asteroid Belts Without Runaway Growth of Very Large Planetary Embryos (1998) (0)
- A strategy for investigation of the outer solar system. Outer planets, their satellites, and particles and fields at great distances from the sun. (1973) (0)
- Lunar research. (1977) (0)
- Regional tectonic analysis of Venus equatorial highlands and comparison with Earth-based Magellan radar images (1993) (0)
- Comet exploration: Scientific objectives and mission strategy for a rendezvous with Encke (1977) (0)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration Planetary Geology and Geophysics (2002) (0)
- Variety in planetary systems (1993) (0)
- Asteroid paradox. (1990) (0)
- Terrestrial Planet and Asteroid Formation in the Presence of Migrating Giant Planets (1998) (0)
- A New Statistical Simulation of Planetary Accretion (2000) (0)
- What were lunar accretion dynamics and early cratering history (1984) (0)
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