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The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time

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How celestial bodies impact life on earth - from the acclaimed author of Notes from Deep Time

'The Meteorites conjures a small epiphany about our own place in the universe' The Sunday Times

'Dazzling
Financial Times

From your window you can see the stars and distant planets: light years away, it's easy to think that our existences and theirs will never intersect. Yet meteorites - mysterious, irregular rocks of sometimes immense value - connect us with the vastness of the universe. They may have brought the first life to our planet, and today they still reveal extraordinary scientific insights.

Helen Gordon reveals the fascinating stories of fallen meteorites and the lives they've touched - from collectors to kings, scientists to farmers. She meets amateur astronomers and gem dealers, goes meteorite hunting across rooftops and learns what objects moving through space can tell us about the fragility of life on Earth.

Author: Gordon Helen
Publisher: PROFILE BOOKS
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781800815353
Cover: Paperback
Edition Number: 1
Release Year: 2025

Helen Gordon's books include a novel, Landfall (Penguin, 2011), and Being A Writer, a compendium written with Travis Elborough (Francis Lincoln, 2017). She is married to a geologist and lives mostly in the Holocene.

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