The cataclysmic origins of most of Earth?s meteorites have been found Seventy percent of meteorites can be linked to a just a handful of asteroid belt collisions, By Robin George Andrews,ScienceNews, October 16, 2024 https://www.sciencenews.org/article/origins-earths-meteorites-found New research shows most space rocks crashing into Earth come from a single source, Trevor Ireland, The Conversation, October 16, 2024 https://theconversation.com/new-research-shows-most-space-rocks-crashing-into-earth-come-from-a-single-source-241455 The open access preprints are: Bro?, M., Vernazza, P., Marsset, M., DeMeo, F.E., Binzel, R.P., Vokrouhlick?, D. and Nesvorn?, D., 2024. Young asteroid families as the primary source of meteorites. arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.08552. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.08552 Marsset, M., Vernazza, P., Bro?, M., Thomas, C.A., DeMeo, F.E., Burt, B., Binzel, R.P., Reddy, V., McGraw, A., Avdellidou, C. and Carry, B., 2024. The Massalia asteroid family as the origin of ordinary L chondrites. arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.08548. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.08548 Yours, Paul H. |
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