[meteorite-list] NPA 12-07-1952 Out Of The Sky, Nininger, Book Review

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: The Oakland Tribune
City: Oakland, California
Date: Sunday, December 7, 1952
Page: 2-C

New Text Explains Cosmic Phenomena of Meteorites

Reviewed by FRANK KETTLEWELL

OUT OF THE SKY, by H. H. Nininger; University of Denver Press, Denver, 
Colo.; $5.
     It has been satisfactorily established that approximately 24,000,000 
pieces of stone and metal, known as meteorites, come "out of the sky" each 
day and encounter the earth's atmosphere.  "Out of the Sky" tells much of 
the stony of these bits of matter from outer space, in the new and exciting 
science of meteoritics.
     The book covers the entire field of meteorites.  It begins with the 
history of the earliest known falls that filled the savage mind with awe.  
The various types of meteorites are described and a planned program to 
search for these rare pieces of cosmic matter is given in detail.
     Meteorites are man's only physical contact with other space and the 
analytical study of them has led to many queries, such as: where do they 
come from?  what are they made of?  what caused their peculiar structures?  
how fast do they travel?  what happens when they collide with the earth?  - 
these and many other questions are answered in "Out of the Sky" by one of 
the America's most active meteoriticists, who is director of the American 
Meteorite Museum, Meteor Crater, Arizona.
     With over 170 photographs, the text is fully comprehensible to the 
amateur scientist.

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Clear Skies,
Mark Bostick
Wichita, Kansas
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