[meteorite-list] Micrometeorites in Your Gutter and Plio‐Pleistocene microtektites from Florida

From: Paul <etchplain_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 20:17:35 -0500
Message-ID: <09862495-56c5-75a5-cca9-72b8562b2e3d_at_att.net>

Can you Really Find Micrometeorites in Your Gutter? Well
Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy. May 16, 2019
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/can-you-really-find-micrometeorites-in-your-gutter-well

Flecks of Extraterrestrial Dust, All Over the Roof
The New York Times, By By William J. Broad
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/science/space-dust-on-earth.html

Genge, M.J., Larsen, J., Van Ginneken, M. and Suttle, M.D., 2017.
An urban collection of modern-day large micrometeorites:
Evidence for variations in the extraterrestrial dust flux through
the Quaternary. Geology, 45(2), pp.119-122.
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/45/2/119/195213/an-urban-collection-of-modern-day-large

A paper about Plio?Pleistocene microtektites in Florida shell beds.

Meyer, M., Harries, P.J. and Portell, R.W., 2019. A first report
of microtektites from the shell beds of southwestern Florida.
Meteoritics & Planetary Science.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/maps.13299

Yours,

Paul H.
Received on Fri 17 May 2019 09:17:35 PM PDT