[meteorite-list] Smallest Meteorite

Alan Rubin aerubin at ucla.edu
Wed Dec 5 18:59:03 EST 2012


As Jeff Grossman uncovered, the smallest object named byu the NMomenclature 
Committee is Y 8333 which weighs 12 mg.  It corresponds to a particle about 
2 mm in diameter.


Alan Rubin
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
University of California
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e-mail: aerubin at ucla.edu
website: http://cosmochemists.igpp.ucla.edu/Rubin.html


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anne Black" <impactika at aol.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 3:49 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Smallest Meteorite


> Hello,
>
> This question came up on another forum.
> What is the smallest meteorite known?  And I mean: still recognizable 
> (classifiable) as a meteorite.
> And no, I am not talking about the highly questionable micrometeorites 
> supposedly found in gutters.
>
> I am sure one of you will know the answer!!
> Thanks.
>
>
> Anne M. Black
> www.IMPACTIKA.com
> IMPACTIKA at aol.com
>
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