[meteorite-list] The cataclysmic origins of most of Earth’s meteorites

Paul etchplain at att.net
Wed Oct 16 20:17:42 EDT 2024


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:

 Brož, M., Vernazza, P., Marsset, M., DeMeo, F.E., Binzel, R.P., Vokrouhlický, 
D. and Nesvorný, 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., Brož, 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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