Cosmic Rain

<p><strong>Every minute several huge snowballs break up as they approach the Earth</strong> and deposit a large cloud of water vapor in Earth's upper atmosphere. That's the startling finding of world-renowned physicist Louis A. Frank after an examination of the images relayed from the Dynamics Explorer 1 spacecraft. His conclusion based on data acquired at the limits of detection created a storm of controversy among scientists. This is the story that was told in <em>The Big Splash</em> published in 1990. But the story does not end there.</p><p>Less than a decade later Frank's discovery of these previously undetected small comets was confirmed when images were received from cameras aboard a different spacecraft named Polar. The news of this vindication of Frank's provocative theory in 1997 made the front pages of several large metropolitan newspapers including <em>The New York Times The Philadelphia Inquire</em>r and <em>The Washington Post</em>.</p><p><em>Cosmic Rain</em> a greatly expanded edition of <em>The Big Splash</em> tells this never-before-told follow-up in Frank's own words of the confirmation of the existence of small comets and the harsh criticism he faced from colleagues for upsetting so many scientific applecarts in the process.</p><p><br></p>