Author : Geoffrey Notkin
Publisher : Aerolite Meteorites, LLC
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 30,62 MB
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Meteorites
ISBN : 9780984754809
"This is the definitive guide to finding meteorites, written by one of the best-known personalities in the field and co-host of the award-winning hit television series Meteorite Men. It includes detailed information on how to locate, excavate, and identify rocks from space, and is filled with photographs and insider information from an internationally recognized meteorite specialist." --Back cover.
Author : Roy A. Gallant
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 33,6 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
The "Indiana Jones of Astronomy" takes readers on a fascinating hunt for scientific treasures at the major meteorite sites of the wild and desolate Russian interior. 16-page insert.
Author : EUNJOLEE
Publisher : 펜립
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,92 MB
Release : 2024-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
In the year 20XX in Korea, Yuha Jin is a ‘meteorite hunter’ who collects and sells meteorites. One day, after hearing a signal that a meteorite had fallen, Yuha and his AI assistant, Frimal, headed to the Uyut Desert. Despite their search, they find nothing—not even a trace of the meteorite. What could have possibly happened there? This is a science fiction novel that incorporates a hypothesis to solve Earth's environmental issues.
Author : Carrie Nugent
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,75 MB
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1501120085
One of the top scientists in the field of asteroid hunting explains how, for the first time, humanity could have the knowledge to prevent a devastating asteroid impact. --
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 14,84 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780803296190
The announcement that a solid gold asteroid has fallen to earth creates a worldwide sensation. The discovery of this falling golden meteor and the race to find it form the core of this exciting tale from the grandfather of science fiction, Jules Verne. 23 illustrations.
Author : Homer Hickam
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 35,17 MB
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429950048
"A fascinating thriller, well crafted and relentless ... A cross between Tony Hillerman and Larry McMurtry, this is one hell of a good read."--Douglas Preston, author of Tyrannosaur Canyon and Blasphemy The cowboys who work on the ranchlands of Montana expect more than their fair share of trouble. One of them is Mike Wire, a former homicide detective. Mike is about to learn murder and mayhem can happen under Motnana's big skies, too. Beneath the earth lie enough dinosaur fossils to fill several museum collections---and make a fortune for whoever claims them first. Soon he will have to combine everything he learned as a cop with everything he knows as a cowboy to protect the people and the land he could never live without.
Author : Harry Dodge
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,32 MB
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0525506209
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice One of LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of 2020 An expansive, radiant, and genre-defying investigation into bonding—and how we are shaped by forces we cannot fully know Is love a force akin to gravity? A kind of invisible fabric which enables communications through space and time? Artist Harry Dodge finds himself contemplating such questions as his father declines from dementia and he rekindles a bewildering but powerful relationship with his birth mother. A meteorite Dodge orders on eBay becomes a mysterious catalyst for a reckoning with the vital forces of matter, the nature of consciousness, and the bafflements of belonging. Structured around a series of formative, formidable coincidences in Dodge’s life, My Meteorite journeys with stylistic bravura from Barthes to Blade Runner, from punk to Pale Fire. It is a wild, incandescent book that creates a literary universe of its own. Blending the personal and the philosophical, the raw and the surreal, the transgressive and the heartbreaking, Harry Dodge revitalizes our world, illuminating the magic just under the surface of daily life.
Author : Geoffrey Notkin
Publisher :
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,80 MB
Release : 2012-06-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780984754823
The eagerly-awaited personal memoir by award-winning author Geoffrey Notkin, and star of the popular television adventure series, Meteorite Men. A science writer and television host with a rock ’n’ roll heart describes his exciting, and sometimes astonishing, quest for meaning and understanding in an unexplainable universe. From the smoking volcanoes of Iceland to the sunblasted wasteland of Chile’s Atacama Desert, and the Australian Outback to the Siberian Arctic, Geoffrey Notkin recounts a forty-year odyssey of adventure that takes him to some of the world’s strangest and wildest places—where music and meteorites are often the only sign posts. Fourteen years in the making, Rock Star, chronicles Geoff's incredible adventures across four continents in search of elusive space rocks, his career as a rock 'n' roll musician, and his childhood in an oppressive British public school. It is populated by a cast of fascinating, larger-than-life characters, and relates hilarious behind-the-scenes stories about the making of Geoff's numerous TV shows. A unique, unforgettable, and beautifully-told story of adventure, passion, determination, danger, frustration, and ultimate triumph.
Author : Maria Golia
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 27,68 MB
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 178023547X
Among the rarest things on earth, meteorites carry an air of mystery and drama while having left a pervasive, outsized mark on our planet and civilization. In Meteorite, Maria Golia tells the long history of our engagement with these sky-born space rocks. Arriving amid thunderous blasts and flame-streaked skies, meteorites were once thought to be messengers from the gods. Worshipped in the past, now scrutinized with equal zeal by scientists, meteorites helped sculpt Earth’s features and have shaped our understanding of the planet’s origins. Prized for their outlandish qualities, meteorites are a collectible and a commodity, objects of art and artists’ desires and a literary muse; and ‘meteorite hunting’ is an adventurous, lucrative profession for some and an addictive hobby for thousands of others. A richly illustrated, remarkably wide-ranging account of the culture and science surrounding meteorites, Golia’s book explores the ancient, lasting power of the meteorite to inspire and awe.
Author : O. Richard Norton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 2008-05-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 1848001576
What is unique about Richard Norton's book is that it is both a field guide to observing meteors, and also a field guide to locating, preparing and analysing meteorites. In addition to giving the reader information about observing techniques for meteors, this book also provides a fully detailed account of the types of meteorites, how and where to find them, how to prepare and analyse them. The book provides everything the amateur astronomer (or geologist!) needs to know about meteors and meteorites. It is thus the only complete book on the subject available at present.
