Galactic Times Books Promotion

I am pleased to announce that this newsletter has given its name to the astronomy book division of the parent company, Hermograph Press! Its first and next two books can be seen at https://www.thegalactictimes.com/galactic-times-books .

The first book, at the printer now and due for shipping to customers on or about June 1st, is called From Out of the Sky… and is about the crazy history of meteors for the state of Alabama. Here you will read the the Deep South’s only meteor crater, with directions, maps and photographs of three trails to explore it. Then travel a short ways to visit the sites where a nine-pound meteor hit a woman…and she lived to tell the tale about it, the only documented such case! Here, too, was a meteor storm that gave birth to a jazz song and a state license plate stating Stars Fell on Alabama, back in the day when nobody believed rocks fell from the sky.

Even if you aren’t in or going to Alabama, you can not only use this book for virtual tours but also to jump start yourself into learning the basics about meteors, fireballs, meteor showers and craters. From Out of the Sky… shows you how and when to watch meteor showers all year long and what you can figure out about the meteors traveling through space and the atmosphere. There have been numerous reports in the news about fireballs in the skies around the Earth. Here’ is information on how to watch them in your backyard or on the internet. The book will also guide you in how to tell if that rock you found in that back yard is a meteorite or a meteor-wrong (i.e. an Earth Rock).

Between now and May 31st you can purchase this $19.99 book at a pre-publication price 25% off, — $14.99. Go to the Hermograph Press online store at https://www.hermograph.com/store and reserve your copy today!

Table of Contents

1. What is a Falling Star Anyway?

2. The Wetumpka Crater, Space Tourism on Earth

3. The Meteoric Bruising, the Sylacauga Event

4. The Not-Yet-Stormy Lion

5. What Other Places in Alabama Did Stars Fall?

6. Determining a Meteorite from a Meteor-wrong

7. What Can You Do With Meteor Showers?

8. What Can You Learn from Fireballs?
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Pictures and sample texts on the book’s website!

— LK