Faith Middleton Show: The Dust That's In Your Home Contains Traces Of The Cosmos

Consider this:  The dust in your home, your car and your office contains particles from the cosmos.  For thousands, even millions of years, meteorites have struck Earth, peppering fields, pounding earth into craters, and shaping the planet.  They continue to do so today, and enthusiasts like Christopher Cokinos are hot on their trail.

In his book The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars Cokinos takes readers on a hunt through time and space as he profiles the maverick scientists, mad dreamers and starry-eyed profiteers who chased meteorites and turned their study into a legitimate science.  Cokinos also weaves tales of his own journey, as he follows in the footsteps of these historic meteorite explorers - from Greenland to Kansas, Australia to the South Pole.