The fallen sky : an intimate history of shooting stars /
Cokinos, Christopher.
New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin,
2010.
Weaving natural history, memoir, and the stories of maverick scientists, daring adventurers, and stargazing dreamers, this book takes us from Antarctica to outer space to tell the tale of how the study of meteorites became a scientific passion.--From publisher description.
Originally published: 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-494) and index.
Prologue : Dust : a brief memoir of overlooked things -- Distances measured in various units -- What breaks out entire : the Eliza Kimberly story -- Higher latitudes : in search of Peary's meteorites -- The weather of belief -- Mr. Barringer's big idea -- Harvey Nininger sees the light -- A serious case of the I wants : passions of the dealers -- Church of the sky -- Life work : the biology of meteorites -- Old fire on blue ice : an Antarctic journey -- Afterword.
Weaving natural history, memoir, and the stories of maverick scientists, daring adventurers, and stargazing dreamers, this book takes us from Antarctica to outer space to tell the tale of how the study of meteorites became a scientific passion.--From publisher description.
Meteorites