[meteorite-list] How much survives entry?

[Chris Peterson]

Whether a semantic tweak is required depends on how you look at the 
question. If you are asking how much of a meteorite's parent body was lost, 
there's no problem; it's never 100%. It is only in asking how much of a 
meteoroid survives ablation that you have to deal with the fact that it's 
usually 0%.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Richard Kowalski" <damoclid at yahoo.com>; "meteorite list" 
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 10:08 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] How much survives entry?


> There's a semantic tweak to whatever answer
> is given. We presume on good evidence that
> many meteoroids result in no meteorite at all
> reaching the Earth. That is our assumption,
> at any rate. In that case, the loss is... 100%