[meteorite-list] New meteorite book _The_Fallen_Sky_

[michael cottingham]

WOW- maybe that explains my 5 children and the thousands of meteorites  
that have passed through my hands....

I wonder if Wilt Chamberlain ever collected meteorites?

Best Wishes

Michael Cottingham

On Jul 23, 2009, at 12:36 PM, MeteorHntr at aol.com wrote:

> You had to go and stop the sample pages where the topic on the last
> paragraph states::
>
> "The very act of collecting, many say is  sexual..."
>
> Thanks, now we all will have to go out and buy this just to  find  
> out what
> he is talking about.
>
> While I have heard people in the field  tell others to go do  
> "something"
> with themselves, I never really thought of  meteorites and meteorite
> collecting in the terms of being sexual in  nature.
>
> And you say there is 448 pages of this?
>
> Steve Arnold
> of  "Meteorite Men"
>
>
>
> In a message dated 7/23/2009 1:42:53 P.M. Central  Daylight Time,
> cynapse at charter.net writes:
> My copy of The Fallen Sky arrived  today.  I've had just a few  
> minutes to
> look
> over it so no major details,  but it is a sizable hardback (448  
> pages of
> text not
> counting index, notes,  and such) and is divided into 10 sections,  
> each on a
> different  meteorite-related topic. Section 7 is "A Serious Case of  
> the I
> Wants:
> The  Passions of the Dealers" which should particularly interest  
> many list
> members  as a few of you make cameo appearances.
>
> I did a quick scan of a few  sample pages from that chapter.  I  
> didn't work
> to
> make them actually  look good (which might require disarticulating the
> pages to
> get the inside  edges flat) or to give a whole segment, but just to  
> give an
> idea
> of the  contents.
>
> http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/the_fallen_sky/
>
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