[meteorite-list] New book on meteorites, THE FALLEN SKY, publishes tomorrow! AD

[Darren Garrison]

On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:18:56 -0400, you wrote:

>Thought you might be interested in a brand new book on the history of
>meteorites is being published tomorrow: THE FALLEN SKY: AN INTIMATE
>HISTORY OF SHOOTING STARS by Christopher Cokinos (Tarcher-Penguin Books,
>$27.95).
>

I'm still (slowly) working my way through this.  I'm around half-way through,
deep into the section on Nininger.  The biographical and historical sections are
much better than the weak begining with the TMI autobiographical material.  It
makes for a very good survey of the history of meteoritics when you look past
the self-indulgent examinations of his Deep Feelings (I googled the author and
he is a Poet (note the capital "P") which explains a great deal,)