[meteorite-list] Fictional book about meteorites

From: Mike Jensen <meteoriteplaya_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:03:57 -0600
Message-ID: <6f9da8300804291303s4ee18d94qf8c3005471aafe09_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi Doug & list
Thanks for that bit of detective work. I guess the good news is it is
clearly a work of fiction and one should not expect a real meteorite
to be pictured....or an accurate depiction of a
fireball-comet-meteoroid thingy.
As for the Black Hills I lived there for almost 10 years and the image
could be from there, though I would not be surprised if it were from
another location as well.
I probably will not get a copy anyway as I still have several non
fiction titles to read.

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Mike
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Mike Jensen
Jensen Meteorites
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:30 PM,  <mexicodoug at aim.com> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
>  You won't like this answer, but the image on the back cover of the book
> which is apparently the referenced image in the credit on the back flap of
> the book available at your link:
>
>  http://www.amazon.com/gp/sitbv3/reader?ie=UTF8&p=S05G&asin=0060741414
>
>  Is of an erroneously ablating meteoroid in outer space with a fiery tail
> and an atmospheric entry-ablative form which is actually part image made by
> Frank Whitney(Getty Images) supposedly of a painting he photographed of a
> comet near earth with the fiery entry-syled bolide tail and no coma, and
> used as an example of an asteroid in the below link.  The erroneous
> celestial representation was apparently cut out of the image and digitally
> pasted above a picture of the Black Hills, though the topography looks
> something like Alpine New Mexico ...
>
>
> http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2005/12/07/comet256.jpg
>  http://www.greatdreams.com/asteroids.htm
>
>  Hope this helps,
>  Best Buying,
>  Doug
>
>
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Mike Jensen <meteoriteplaya at gmail.com>
>  To: Meteorite <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>  Sent: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 2:19 pm
>  Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fictional book about meteorites
>
>
>
>  Hi List
>  Here is a fictional book with the plot line about a meteorite.
>  In the information on Amazon they give photo credit for a meteorite.
>  Does anyone know which meteorite they used?
>
>  http://www.amazon.com/Go-Big-Home-Will-Hobbs/dp/0060741414
>
>
>
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>  Mike
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Received on Tue 29 Apr 2008 04:03:57 PM PDT