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Geoffrey Notkin hosts the award-winning television adventure series Meteorite Men on Science Channel and has also appeared in programs for Discovery, TLC, PBS, A&E, National Geographic Channel, History Channel, Travel Channel, and the BBC. He is a science writer, publisher, art director, meteorite specialist, photographer, musician, world traveler, and the owner of Aerolite Meteorites LLC, an international company that provides meteorite specimens to collectors and institutions worldwide.

An award-winning author, Geoffrey has written more than 150 published articles on meteoritics, paleontology, astronomy, adventure travel, history, and the arts, with his work appearing in Astronomy, Astronomy Now, Sky & Telescope, American Digger,...more
Geoffrey Notkin hosts the award-winning television adventure series Meteorite Men on Science Channel and has also appeared in programs for Discovery, TLC, PBS, A&E, National Geographic Channel, History Channel, Travel Channel, and the BBC. He is a science writer, publisher, art director, meteorite specialist, photographer, musician, world traveler, and the owner of Aerolite Meteorites LLC, an international company that provides meteorite specimens to collectors and institutions worldwide.

An award-winning author, Geoffrey has written more than 150 published articles on meteoritics, paleontology, astronomy, adventure travel, history, and the arts, with his work appearing in Astronomy, Astronomy Now, Sky & Telescope, American Digger, Wired, Reader’s Digest, The Village Voice, Seed, Rock & Gem, Geotimes, Meteorite, and many other national and international publications. He is the author of the IPPY Award-winning book Meteorite Hunting: How To Find Treasure From Space and a memoir, Rock Star: Adventures Of A Meteorite Man, the science column Meteorwritings on Geology.com, and a popular science and arts blog, The Logical Lizard, for TucsonCitizen.com.

He has worked with most of the world’s major institutions including The American Museum of Natural History, New York; The Natural History Museum, London; The Museum of Natural History, Vienna, Austria; The Center for Meteorite Studies at ASU, Tempe; and the Oscar E. Monnig Meteorite Collection. He is a fellow of The Explorer’s Club, and a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the International Meteorite Collectors’ Association, and the Association of Applied Paleontological Sciences. The minor planet 132904, discovered at Mount Palomar, was named after him in recognition of his contributions to science and education.

Adventuring has taken Geoff to forty-five countries and some of our planet’s most remote areas including Siberia, Chile’s Atacama Desert, the Australian Outback, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, rural Mexico, the Middle East, and he has three times crossed the Arctic Circle.

Fascinated by meteorites since he was a little boy, by the age of seven Geoff was already an avid rock hound and fossil collector. His father was an amateur astronomer and shared his love of stargazing. “I was stunned that you could actually see other worlds from a suburban London garden,” Geoff states: “I suppose the epiphany came when my mother took me to visit London’s Geological Museum. I was awed by the Hall of Meteorites and in a moment of revelation realized that studying and collecting meteorites would be a unique combination of geology and astronomy. I have been hooked ever since.”

Geoffrey was born on 14th street in Manhattan and grew up in London, England. He studied geology, astronomy, photography, writing, and design in London, Boston and New York, and now resides in the Sonoran Desert of southern Arizona.

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"Time Is An Illusion," Excerpt from Chapter Twenty of "Rock Star: Adventures of a Meteorite Man"

When the news arrived that we would be making a second season of Meteorite Men and that five episodes were to be filmed overseas, there were two things I yearned to do above all others: See Australia’s Henbury Craters and return to Chile’s haunting Atacama Desert.

During earlier episodes while working at sites that Steve and I already knew, such as Ash Creek and Gold Basin, we enjoyed a marked a... Read more of this blog post »

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	Rock Star: Adventures of a Meteorite Man by Geoffrey Notkin (Goodreads Author), Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.95 of 5 stars 4.95 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meteorite Hunting: How to Find Treasure from Space by Geoffrey Notkin (Goodreads Author), Chris Cokinos (Introduction), Larry Lebofsky (Editor) 4.88 of 5 stars 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2011	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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