Magnetic Susceptibility in Meteorites Paperback – February 8, 2026

Magnetic Susceptibility in Meteorites is not a handbook of shortcuts, nor a catalogue of numbers divorced from context. It is a disciplined exploration of a deceptively simple physical parameter and its capacity to reveal structure, history and meaning when applied with rigor. Drawing on extensive laboratory practice and large reference datasets, this volume places magnetic susceptibility where it truly belongs: as a quantitative, non-destructive tool integrated into modern meteoritical analysis.Written for laboratories, researchers and advanced collectors, the book moves deliberately from physical fundamentals to real-world applications, addressing both the power and the limits of susceptibility. Ordinary chondrites, carbonaceous groups, achondrites and metal-rich meteorites are treated within a unified statistical framework, with particular emphasis on log-space interpretation, overlap, anomalies and pairing logic. Case studies and methodological discussions reflect not idealized samples, but the complexity of real meteorites as they are found, altered and studied.This work advocates a clear philosophy: magnetic susceptibility does not replace petrography or geochemistry, but it sharpens them. When measured carefully, reported transparently and interpreted statistically, susceptibility becomes a reliable guide through ambiguity rather than a source of false certainty. In doing so, it offers a practical and intellectually honest contribution to the evolving toolkit of meteoritics. Read more