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THE ART OF COLLECTING METEORITES
by Kevin Kichinka
 
"THREE THUMBS WAY, WAY UP!" 
Robert Haag, "The Meteorite Man"
 
“Kevin Kichinka has written an engaging book that needed writing. This book is a compendium of human activity touching upon scientific, artistic and commercial values in which meteorites are the vehicle through time.”
O. Richard Norton
Author of Rocks from Space and The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Meteorites
 
“Funny, punning and poetic ... an engaging, often enthralling journey into the inner workings of meteorite collecting. Kichinka pulls no punches while stripping off the veneer of meteorite collecting to expose the good, the bad, and the ugly. The final story is the relentless search for Bolivia's first authenticated meteorite; a story that makes good adventure reading regardless of its meteoritical implications. This book is an enjoyable read, because it is about us."
Martin Horejsi
Meteorite magazine
May, 2005
". . . a must for every meteorite collector's bookshelf."
Astronomy
August, 2006
"Comprehensive to a fault, when the time comes for me to expand my collection, I'll pick up a copy of Kevin Kichinka's The Art of Collecting Meteorites."
Sky and Telescope
December, 2005
 

The Art of Collecting Meteorites is the first book dedicated solely to the theory and methodology of collecting meteorites. The hobby’s evolution is covered from its earliest beginnings among the “rich, royal or religious” to the advent of the “Bessey Speck.”

Strategies to purchase the highest-quality specimens at the most favorable prices are clearly outlined and a new tool for price determination is introduced.

This guide offers advice on care and first aid for your specimens, compares the materials involving their display and affecting their preservation, and suggests an integrated system for cataloguing holdings.

Select contributions by the author to the acclaimed quarterly Meteorite are reprised, including those that track his expeditions to discover Bolivia’s first authenticated meteorite.
The most powerful legend of the hobby grows, as new forensic evidence and commentary from the grave of the original "Meteorite Man" seals the coffin of the dog a farmer saw struck by a Martian meteorite in 1911.

The “Timeline of Historical Meteoritical Events” transports the reader on a breath-taking ride through history that will fire the imagination and enhance the knowledge of every researcher, dealer and collector.

The Art of Collecting Meteorites offers the author’s unvarnished observations to help the collector understand and harness the forces driving the marketing of these souvenirs from space.

Read an interview with the author, Kevin Kichinka in Meteorite Times

232 pages, 40 color photographs

Edited by Dr. Joel Schiff
Foreword by O. Richard Norton

The first 500 copies of this first edition will be signed and numbered by the author.
 
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