Finding and Collecting Meteorites

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Apr 2003

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5524. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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METEORITES fall at random over the Earth's surface, at a rate of around 1000 per year for samples weighing 10-100 kg (10-20 cm across) and 10 000 per year for samples weighing between 10-100 g. Many of these specimens fall in the ocean and are lost. Those that fall unobserved in temperate or wet regions rapidly weather and break down over a timescale of ˜100-200 yr. In contrast, meteorites that fa...

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