The cataclysmic origins of most of Earth’s meteorites 16OCT2024

 The cataclysmic origins of most of Earth’s meteorites

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.