(Updated through 1 December 1997)

5494 Alexander, C. M. O'D., Dust production in the Galaxy: the meteorite perspective, inAstrophysical Implications of the Laboratory Study of Presolar Materials, T. J. Bernatowicz and E. K. Zinner, eds., pp. 567-594, AIP Conference Proceedings 402, American Institute of Physics/AIP Press, Woodbury, N.Y., 1997.

5447 Barruol, G., P. G. Silver, and A. Vauchez, Seismic anisotropy in the eastern United States: deep structure of a complex continental plate, J. Geophys. Res. 102, 8329-8348, 1997.

5438 Bina, C. R., and P. G. Silver, Bulk sound travel times and implications for mantle composition and outer core heterogeneity, Geophys. Res. Lett. 24, 499-502, 1997.

5453 Boss, A. P., Giant planet formation by gravitational instability, Science 276, 1836-1839, 1997.

5454 Boss, A. P., Collapse and fragmentation of molecular cloud cores. V. Loss of magnetic field support, Astrophys. J. 483, 309-319, 1997.

5459 Boss, A. P., Earth-Moon system: origins, in Encyclopedia of Planetary Sciences, J. H. Shirley and R. W. Fairbridge, eds., pp. 223-228, Chapman & Hall, London, 1997. (No reprints available.)

5460 Boss, A. P., Capture mechanisms, in Encyclopedia of Planetary Sciences, J. H. Shirley and R. W. Fairbridge, eds., p. 76, Chapman & Hall, London, 1997. (No reprints available.)

5477 Boss, A. P., The formation of planetary systems, in Infrared Space Interferometry: Astrophysics & the Study of Earth-like Planets, C. Eiroa et al., eds., pp. 3-8, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1997.

5490 Boss, A. P., Temperatures in protoplanetary disks, in Origins of Planets and Life, H. J. Melosh, ed., pp. 53-80, Annual Reviews, Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., 1997. [Preprinted from Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 26 ] (No reprints available.)

5483 Boss, A. P., and P. N. Foster, Triggering presolar cloud collapse and injecting material into the presolar nebula, in Astrophysical Implications of the Laboratory Study of Presolar Materials, T. J. Bernatowicz and E. K. Zinner, eds., pp. 649-664, AIP Conference Proceedings 402, American Institute of Physics/AIP Press, Woodbury, N.Y., 1997.

5458 Bothun, G., C. Impey, and S. McGaugh, Low-surface-brightness galaxies: hidden galaxies revealed, Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific 109, 745-758, 1997.

5455 Brown, L., Accelerator mass spectrometry, in Modern Analytical Geochemistry, R. Gill, ed., Ch. 12, pp. 200-205, Longman, Harlow, U.K., 1997.

5489 Brown, L., J. H. Bryant, and N. Koizumi, eds., Japanese Radar and Related Weapons of World War II, by Y. Nakagawa, Aegean Park Press, Laguna Hills, Calif., 103 pp., 1997. (Available for purchase from the publisher.)

5471 Butner, H. M., H. J. Walker, D. H. Wooden, and F. C. Witteborn, Examples of comet-like spectra among [beta]-Pic-like stars, in From Stardust to Planetesimals: Contributed Papers,M. E. Kress, A. G. G. M. Tielens, and Y. J. Pendleton, eds., pp. 13-17, NASA Conference Publication 3343, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., 1996.

5486 Carlson, R. W., Do continents part passively, or do they need a shove?, Science 278,240-241, 1997.

5430 Carlson, R. W., S. Esperança, and D. P. Svisero, Chemical and Os isotopic study of Cretaceous potassic rocks from southern Brazil, Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 125, 393-405, 1996.

5435 Chambers, J. E., Why Halley-types resonate but long-period comets don't: a dynamical distinction between short- and long-period comets, Icarus 125, 32-38, 1997.

5474 de Blok, W. J. G., and S. S. McGaugh, Dark matter in low surface brightness galaxies, in Dark and Visible Matter in Galaxies, M. Persic and P. Salucci, eds., pp. 39-46, Conference Series, Vol. 117, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 1997.

5481 de Blok, W. J. G., and S. S. McGaugh, The dark and visible matter content of low surface brightness disc galaxies, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 290, 533-552, 1997.

5479 Eiler, J. M., K. A. Farley, J. W. Valley, E. Hauri, H. Craig, S. R. Hart, and E. M. Stolper, Oxygen isotope variations in ocean island basalt phenocrysts, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 61, 2281-2293, 1997.

5456 Esperança, S., R. W. Carlson, S. B. Shirey, and D. Smith, Dating crust-mantle separation: Re-Os isotopic study of mafic xenoliths from central Arizona, Geology 25, 651-654, 1997.

5442 Fabbiano, G., F. Schweizer, and G. Mackie, ROSAT HRI observations of NGC 4038/4039, "The Antennae" galaxies, Astrophys. J. 478, 542-553, 1997.

5488 Foster, P. N., and A. P. Boss, Injection of radioactive nuclides from the stellar source that triggered the collapse of the presolar nebula, Astrophys. J. 489, 346-357, 1997.

5444 French, B. M., C. Koeberl, I. Gilmour, S. B. Shirey, J. A. Dons, and J. Naterstad, The Gardnos impact structure, Norway: petrology and geochemistry of target rocks and impactites, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 61, 873-904, 1997.

5475 Gao, S., A Bayesian nonlinear inversion of seismic body-wave attenuation factors, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 87, 961-970, 1997.

5467 Graham, J. A., Star formation associated with the NE radio lobe of NGC 5128 (Cen A), in Star Formation Near and Far, S. S. Holt and L. G. Mundy, eds., pp. 555-557, AIP Conference Proceedings 393, AIP Press, New York, 1997.

5440 Graham, J. A., R. L. Phelps, W. L. Freedman, A. Saha, L. Ferrarese, P. B. Stetson, B. F. Madore, N. A. Silbermann, S. Sakai, R. C. Kennicutt, P. Harding, F. Bresolin, A. Turner, J. R. Mould, D. M. Rawson, H. C. Ford, J. G. Hoessel, M. Han, J. P. Huchra, L. M. Macri, S. M. Hughes, G. D. Illingworth, and D. D. Kelson, The Hubble Space Telescope extragalactic distance scale key project. VII. The discovery of Cepheids in the Leo I group galaxy NGC 3351, Astrophys. J. 477, 535-559, 1997.

5468 Hart, W. K., R. W. Carlson, and S. B. Shirey, Radiogenic Os in primitive basalts from the northwestern U.S.A.: implications for petrogenesis, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 150, 103-116, 1997.

5478 Hauri, E. H., and S. R. Hart, Rhenium abundances and systematics in oceanic basalts,Chem. Geology 139, 185-205, 1997.

5446 Huang, S., I. S. Sacks, and J. A. Snoke, Topographic and seismic effects of long-term coupling between the subducting and overriding plates beneath Northeast Japan,Tectonophysics 269, 279-297, 1997.

5452 Kincaid, C., and I. S. Sacks, Thermal and dynamical evolution of the upper mantle in subduction zones, J. Geophys. Res. 102, 12295-12315, 1997.

5495 Koeberl, C., and S. B. Shirey, Re-Os isotope systematics as a diagnostic tool for the study of impact craters and distal ejecta, Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 132, 25-46, 1997.

5448 Leffler, L., S. Stein, A. Mao, T. Dixon, M. A. Ellis, L. Ocola, and I. S. Sacks, Constraints on present-day shortening rate across the central eastern Andes from GPS measurements,Geophys. Res. Lett. 24, 1031-1034, 1997.

5484 Lithgow-Bertelloni, C., and M. Gurnis, Cenozoic subsidence and uplift of continents from time-varying dynamic topography, Geology 25, 735-738, 1997.

5451 McGaugh, S. S., and W. J. G. de Blok, Gas mass fractions and the evolution of spiral galaxies, Astrophys. J. 481, 689-702, 1997.

5473 McGaugh, S. S., and W. J. G. de Blok, Gas content and star formation thresholds in the evolution of spiral galaxies, in Star Formation Near and Far, S. S. Holt and L. G. Mundy, eds., pp. 510-513, AIP Conference Proceedings 393, AIP Press, New York, 1997.

5461 McGovern, P. J., and S. C. Solomon, Filling of flexural moats around large volcanoes on Venus: implications for volcano structure and global magmatic flux, J. Geophys. Res. 102,16303-16318, 1997.

5439 Mihos, J. C., S. S. McGaugh, and W. J. G. de Blok, Dynamic stability and environmental influences in low surface brightness disk galaxies, Astrophys. J. (Lett.) 477, L79-L83, 1997.

5472 Mihos, J. C., S. S. McGaugh, and W. J. G. de Blok, Dynamical stability and galaxy evolution in LSB disk galaxies, in Star Formation Near and Far, S. S. Holt and L. G. Mundy, eds., pp. 311-314, AIP Conference Proceedings 393, AIP Press, New York, 1997.

5469 Moriarty-Schieven, G. H., and H. M. Butner, A submillimeter-wave "flare" from GG Tauri?, Astrophys. J. 474, 768-773, 1997.

5465 Mould, J. R., P. B. Stetson, M. Han, W. Freedman, B. Gibson, J. A. Graham, J. Huchra, B. Madore, and D. Rawson, The age of the Large Magellanic Cloud cluster NGC 1651,Astrophys. J. (Lett.) 483, L41-L44, 1997.

5445 Neele, F., H. de Regt, and J. C. VanDecar, Gross errors in upper-mantle discontinuity topography from underside reflection data, Geophys. J. Int. 129, 194-204, 1997.

5431 Nguyen, H., M. F. J. Flower, and R. W. Carlson, Major, trace element and isotopic compositions of Vietnamese basalts: interaction of hydrous EM1-rich aesthenosphere with thinned Eurasian lithosphere, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 60, 4329-4351, 1996.

5480 Nicholson, S. W., S. B. Shirey, K. J. Schulz, and J. C. Green, Rift-wide correlation of 1.1 Ga Midcontinent rift system basalts: implications for multiple mantle sources during rift development, Can. J. Earth Sci. 34, 504-520, 1997.

5436 Pollitz, F. F., and I. S. Sacks, The 1995 Kobe, Japan earthquake: a long-delayed aftershock of the offshore 1944 Tonankai and 1946 Nankaido earthquakes, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 87, 1-10, 1997.

5434 Richards, M. A., Y. Ricard, C. Lithgow-Bertelloni, G. Spada, and R. Sabadini, An explanation for Earth's long-term rotational stability, Science 275, 372-375, 1997.

5429 Rubin, V. C., Bright Galaxies, Dark Matters, Springer-Verlag/AIP Press, New York, 236 pp., 1997. (Available for purchase from the publisher.)

5492 Rubin, V. C., From an observer, in Critical Dialogues in Cosmology, N. Turek, ed., pp. 597-614, World Scientific, Singapore and River Edge, N.J., 1997. (No reprints available.)

5493 Rubin, V. C., What George Gamow didn't know about the universe, in George Gamow Symposium, E. Harper, W. Parke, and D. Anderson, eds., pp. 95-113, Conference Series, Vol. 129, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 1997.

5443 Rubin, V. C., J. D. P. Kenney, and J. S. Young, Rapidly rotating circumnuclear gas disks in Virgo disk galaxies, Astron. J. 113, 1250-1278, 1997.

5485 Sandwell, D. T., C. L. Johnson, F. Bilotti, and J. Suppe, Driving forces for limited tectonics on Venus, Icarus 129, 232-244, 1997.

5496 Schoenecker, S. C., R. M. Russo, and P. G. Silver, Source-side splitting of S waves from Hindu Kush-Pamir earthquakes, Tectonophysics 279, 149-159, 1997.

5463 Schweizer, F., Mergers and globular-cluster formation in early-type galaxies, in The Second Stromlo Symposium: the Nature of Elliptical Galaxies, M. Arnaboldi, G. S. Da Costa, and P. Saha, eds., pp. 447-457, Conference Series, Vol. 116, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 1997.

5464 Seitzer, P., and F. Schweizer, Young globular clusters in NGC 7252, in The Second Stromlo Symposium: the Nature of Elliptical Galaxies, M. Arnaboldi, G. S. Da Costa, and P. Saha, eds., pp. 504-505, Conference Series, Vol. 116, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 1997.

5432 Shen, Y., S. C. Solomon, I. Th. Bjarnason, and G. M. Purdy, Hot mantle transition zone beneath Iceland and the adjacent Mid-Atlantic Ridge inferred from P-to-S conversions at the 410- and 660-km discontinuities, Geophys. Res. Lett. 23, 3527-3530, 1996.

5450 Shirey, S. B., Re-Os isotopic compositions of Midcontinent rift system picrites: implications for plume-lithosphere interaction and enriched mantle sources, Can. J. Earth Sci. 34, 489-503, 1997.

5482 Simons, M., S. C. Solomon, and B. H. Hager, Localization of gravity and topography: constraints on the tectonics and mantle dynamics of Venus, Geophys. J. Int. 131, 24-44, 1997.

5437 Snoke, J. A., and D. E. James, Lithospheric structure of the Chaco and Paraná Basins of South America from surface-wave inversion, J. Geophys. Res. 102, 2939-2951, 1997.

5466 Solomon, S. C., Venus: geology and geophysics, in Encyclopedia of Planetary Sciences,J. H. Shirley and R. W. Fairbridge, eds., pp. 895-904, Chapman & Hall, London, 1997. (No reprints available.)

5462 Tera, F., Age of Earth, in McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 8th ed., Vol. 5, pp. 509-512, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1997. (No reprints available.)

5449 Tera, F., R. W. Carlson, and N. Z. Boctor, Radiometric ages of basaltic achondrites and their relation to the early history of the Solar System, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 61, 1713-1731, 1997.

5476 van der Lee, S., and G. Nolet, Seismic image of the subducted trailing fragments of the Farallon plate, Nature 386, 266-269, 1997.

5470 Walker, H. J., V. Tsikoudi, C. A. Clayton, T. Geballe, D. H. Wooden, and H. M. Butner, The nature of the unusual source IRAS 18530+0817, Astron. Astrophys. 323, 442-448, 1997.

5441 Wetherill, G. W., Ways that our solar system helps us understand the formation of other planetary systems and ways that it doesn't, Astrophys. Space Sci. 241, 25-34, 1996.

5491 Wetherill, G. W., Formation of the Earth, in Origins of Planets and Life, H. J. Melosh, ed., pp. 127-178, Annual Reviews, Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., 1997. [Reprinted from Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 18, 205-256, 1990] (No reprints available.)

5487 Whitmore, B. C., B. W. Miller, F. Schweizer, and S. M. Fall, Hubble Space Telescopeobservations of two dynamically young elliptical galaxies, Astron. J. 114, 1797-1823, 1997. (No reprints available.)

5457 Widom, E., R. W. Carlson, J. B. Gill, and H.-U. Schmincke, Th-Sr-Nd-Pb isotope and trace element evidence for the origin of the São Miguel, Azores, enriched mantle source,Chem. Geol. 140, 49-68, 1997.

5433 Wolfe, C. J., I. Th. Bjarnason, J. C. VanDecar, and S. C. Solomon, Seismic structure of the Iceland mantle plume, Nature 385, 245-247, 1997.