DocumentCode
1158581
Title
Micrometeorites
Author
Witzel, John
Volume
6
Issue
1
fYear
2003
fDate
3/1/2003 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
55
Lastpage
56
Abstract
Micrometeorites are the remnants of larger, typically marble-sized, meteors that mostly burned up or exploded before impacting earth. Most of those brilliant "shooting stars" you see in the sky at night are merely dime-sized nuggets suffering a fiery death and giving birth to a swarm of micrometeorites. We have all been hit by micrometeorites many times in our lives. Most of us just didn\´t realize it until now. In this article I describes a simple collection process that allows one to make some observations on micrometeorites.
Keywords
micrometeorites; collection process; micrometeorite; Atmosphere; Earth; Glass; Iron; NASA; Oceans; Particle scattering; Planets; Protection; Sediments;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1094-6969
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MIM.2003.1184295
Filename
1184295
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