Fallen Sky An Intimate History of Shooting Stars

Name: Fallen Sky An Intimate History of Shooting Stars
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ISBN: 9781585428328

ISBN-10: 1585428329

ISBN-13: 9781585428328

Edition: N/A

Authors: Christopher Cokinos

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Weaving natural history, memoir, and in-depth profiles of amateur researchers, rogue scientists, and stargazing dreamers, a prizewinning poet and nature writer takes readers from Antarctica to outer space to tell the epic story of how the study of meteorites became a modern science.

Book details

List price: $24.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/5/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



Introduction


Prologue: Dust: A Brief Memoir of Overlooked Things



Distances Measured in Various Units



The First Asteroid



Ellis Hughes's 15-Ton Caper







What Breaks Out Entire: The Eliza Kimberly Story



Higher Latitudes: In Search of Peary's Meteorites



1 Please Bring Your Wu Wei to the Upright and Locked Position



2 Thule and the Barb



3 The Isthmus and Meteorite Island



The Weather of Belief



Big Idea




Harvey Ninmger Sees the Light



Epiphany on Euclid Street



Never Done



Strongly Spent



A Serious Case of the I Wants: Passions of the Dealers



Church of the Sky



Life Work: The Biology of Meteorites



1 The Resurrection of Acraman



2 Old Stones That Can Be Deciphered



Old Fire on Blue Ice: An Antarctic Journey



Above the Clouds, Halfway Down



I Crap Through Disco Night at the South Pole



Bedlam



Massif: An Unmaking


Afterword


Glossary of Terms


Meteorite Chart


Notes


Acknowledgments, Permissions, and a Narrative Note


Index