The cataclysmic origins of most of Earth’s meteorites

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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

 

New research shows most space rocks crashing into Earth come from

a single source, Trevor Ireland, The Conversation, October 16, 2024

 

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.

 

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.

 

Yours,

Paul H.