On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:10:03 -0700, you wrote: >Dear Listees: > >More about Chris Cokinos' new meteorite book "The Fallen Sky" here: > >http://meteoriteblog.org/
Oh, and that quote you gave (which I'll reproduce below) is an excellent illustration of why I'm finding the book tedius already. That prose is deeply purple. The olivine, which on Earth is the gemstone peridot, seems to glow from within. Slices of pallasites look a bit like the coat of a metal leopard with green spots . . . Brenham olivine is autumnal and ethereal, like an October forest and sky in a luminist painting. The curves of metal looks like sinuous paths connecting lakes seen from on high. A slice of Brenham? Its a silver sponge that soaks up light. ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
