Chris Cokinos 'The Sky is Falling' und 'Meteorite Hunters'

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The Sky is Falling: The Fascinating Science and Crazy History of Shooting Stars

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The Fascinating Science and Crazy History of Shooting Stars. From folk tales that attributed meteors to the tears of saints to worries that a shooting star foretold death, humans have attributed deep symbolic meaning to lights passing in the sky. Join us for an entertaining and provocative overview of our attempts to incorporate meteors and meteorites into various cultures.

Meteorite Hunters: Real-Life Adventures in Search of Meteorites

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Weaving natural history, memoir and the stories of maverick scientists, daring adventurers, and stargazing dreamers, author Christopher Cokinos will be your guide for the evening. Hear captivating stories that take us from a driveway in Oregon where, a century ago, a rogue backwoodsman stole a 15-ton meteorite; to Arizona's Meteor Crater, where Daniel Barringer challenged establishment science, lost a fortune and died of a broken heart; and all the way to Antarctica where Cokinos himself helped to discover hundreds of meteorites until he confronted the limits to his endurance on the barren ice sheets at the bottom of the world.