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Explorer Library · Ages 12+

Meteorites in History and Culture

Sky iron, sacred stones and the falls that changed what we know

Corvanelle Publishing

Iron beads hammered from a meteorite and buried in Egypt about 3200 BCE. A dagger blade of sky iron in Tutankhamun's tomb. Inughuit knives chipped from the 31-tonne Cape York iron. This history follows meteorites from sacred stones and royal omens through a century of scientific doubt to the proof of 1803 at L'Aigle, then on to Tunguska, Sikhote-Alin, Chelyabinsk, Winchcombe and asteroids tracked by telescope before they struck. It explains the evidence at every step, with worked examples, a gazetteer, a timeline and problems with answers.

  • 57,494 words
  • About 307 pages
  • 33 chapters
  • Ages 12+
£7.99

Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Stones, Irons and Evidence
  3. The First Sky Iron: Ancient Egypt
  4. Iron Before the Iron Age
  5. Sky Iron in the Americas
  6. Cape York and the Inughuit
  7. Stones of the Gods: Greece and Rome
  8. Records from China, Japan and India
  9. Sacred Stones in Living Traditions
  10. Ensisheim, 1492: The First Printed Fall
  11. The Age of Doubt, 1600–1790
  12. Chladni and the Falls of the 1790s
  13. Howard's Analysis, 1802
  14. L'Aigle, 1803: The Proof
  15. A New Science, 1803–1900
  16. Fireballs and Meteor Storms in the Record
  17. Tunguska, 1908
  18. Craters: The Long Argument
  19. Sikhote-Alin, 1947: A Rain of Iron
  20. Hunters and Finders
  21. Falls in Britain and Ireland
  22. Struck by Stones: Sylacauga, Peekskill and the Odds
  23. 1969: The Year Meteoritics Changed
  24. Messengers from the Moon, Mars and Vesta
  25. Chelyabinsk, 2013
  26. The Camera Age: From Příbram to Winchcombe
  27. Seen Before They Struck
  28. Museums, Ownership and Ethics
  29. Gazetteer of Historic Meteorites
  30. Timeline
  31. Researching Meteorite History
  32. Problems and Answers
  33. Glossary