Were you fascinated by last week’s meteor shower? Who are the maverick scientists and starry-eyed profiteers who chased meteorites into a legitimate science and a romantic myth? We’ll spend this hour with Christopher Cokinos, author of “The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars” (Tarcher/Penguin, 2009).
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