Rare meteorites common in the Ordovician period

Rare meteorites common in the Ordovician period

A 466-million-year-old space collision is still raining shrapnel
on Earth By Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, January 23, 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/01/23/a-466-million-year-old-space-collision-is-still-raining-shrapnel-down-on-earth/

Today’s rare meteorites were once common, The Field Museum,
Monday, January 23, 2017
https://www.fieldmuseum.org/science/blog/todays-rare-meteorites-were-once-common

The paper is:

Heck, P. R., B. Schmitz, W. F. Bottke, S. S. Rout, N. T. Kita, A. Cronholm,
C. Defouilloy, A. Dronov, and F. Terfelt, 2017, Rare meteorites common
in the Ordovician period. Nature Astronomy 1, Article number: 0035 (2017)
doi:10.1038/s41550-016-0035
http://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-016-0035

Yours,

Paul H.