Alan E. Rubin is a world-leading expert on meteorites. He is now semi-retired but previously served as an adjunct professor and research geochemist in the Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a fellow of the Meteoritical Society and winner of the Nininger Meteorite Award and seven Griffith Observer science writing awards. He is the namesake of the garnet mineral rubinite and the main-belt asteroid 6227 Alanrubin. He has published about 220 peer-reviewed papers on the subject, as well as three books, including the well-received Meteorite Mineralogy, published in our Cambridge Planetary Science series in 2021.

• Preface; Introduction; 1. Approaches to experimental and observational science; 2. Meteorite classification; 3. A few essential definitions; 4. Ordinary-chondrite abundances in different mass ranges; 5. Asteroids; 6. Carbonaceous and noncarbonaceous materials in the solar system; 7. Delivery of meteorites to the earth; 8. Fall phenomena; 9. Terrestrial weathering; 10. Ordinary-chondrite groups; 11. Physical components of ordinary chondrites; 12. Mineralogy of ordinary chondrites; 13. Parent-body processes; 14. Parent-body collisional histories; 15. Magnetic fields in the solar nebula; 16. Ordinary-chondrite formation: a summing up; Epilogue; References; Index.

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