PPT-How to identify a meteorite?

Small Solar System Bodies Did you find a meteorite Credit Public domain Did you find a curious looking rock With the help of these instructions you can investigate if it could be a meteorite. & Meteors. Lectures will be available at: . homework.uoregon.edu. /pub/. elsa. /. haydock. / . Asteroid Belt Basic . Characteristics. Estimated 1 million are ~1km or larger; millions more are . smaller. meteor. is shown above the western horizon. . Image Credit: Michael . Tournay. Aug 11, 2009. Left: When Earth passes through a concentrated region of space debris (like the orbit of a comet) we experience a . Leah Salditch . February 27, 2017. Mars Final Project . 3 main types of meteorites. Iron. Stony-Iron. Pallasite. Mesosiderite. Stony. Chondrites. Achondrites. Pallasite. Achondrites. Basaltic. Common, comprise ~5% of all meteorite findings . Introduction to methods. Identification and classification. EL YAZIDI . Mayssa. . Le 31/03/2016 – . Kélibia. . Plan . Introduction. Terminology. Origin. Identification . criteria. Classification. Meteors. Meteorites. Impacts. Meteors, Meteorites and Impacts. I. . Small . Solar System Bodies. Small Solar System Bodies. (SSSB, as defined by the IAU) are objects in the Solar System that are neither . Biggest meteor. The biggest meteor to hit earth was in . R. ussia the speed was 1500 kilometres per hour or about 950 miles per hour.. The width was 50 meters. . It injured 1100 people.. Most common meteor. Tungsten isotope abundances for iron meteorites fall into two distinct groups that also include carbonaceous chondrites (CC) and non-carbonaceous chondrites (NC) plus Mars, Earth, and the Moon. The higher . Asteroids. Over 100,000 asteroids.. Vesta is the largest – 330 miles. in diameter.. Size range – 330 miles to about. 100 yards.. Irregular-shaped rocky bodies.. Some asteroids have moon(s).. The . Isheyevo. carbonaceous chondrite . has millimeter- . to centimeter-thick laminations . composed of different amounts of silicate versus Fe-Ni metal grains. . These remarkable laminations are a permanent record of a . on. The early history of the Solar System is recorded by meteorites falling now, but also by those that fell hundreds of millions to billions of years ago, preserved in lunar samples, sedimentary layers on Earth, and even sitting on the surface of Mars. . on. The early history of the Solar System is recorded by meteorites falling now, but also by those that fell hundreds of millions to billions of years ago, preserved in lunar samples, sedimentary layers on Earth, and even sitting on the surface of Mars. . No 136 March 1932 Vol XXIII South-West Africa the largest known meteorite Plate I By L J 1910 in volume 15 of this Magazine I was LJ SPENCER ON on the railway from Grootfontein to Otavi and only four Isotopic compositions show that carbonaceous chondrites and basaltic meteorite NWA 011 are distinctly enriched in both ε. 50. Ti and ε. 54. Cr compared to the non-carbonaceous chondrites, several types of igneous meteorites, and samples from Mars, the Moon, and Earth..