Found a nice article on the subject. Makes me want to put a collector on my roof. :) Can’t post pictures here so put it on SLAS Talk. Have a look. patrick
On Mar 22, 2017, at 17:09, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
My understanding is that "perfect little spheres" is a good indicator, but not a foolproof guarantee of meteoric origin.
YMMV.
On 3/22/17, Richard Tenney via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
I was wondering about this too -- I'm sure blowing dust picks up a fair amount of iron particulate that may be non-meteoritic. So "perfect little spheres" is (mostly) a guarantee they are micro-meteorites?/R
From: Daniel Holmes <danielh@holmesonics.com> To: Utah-astronomy Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 2:51 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Micro-meteorites in today's NYT
Yeah, this was when Jen was at the U, and had access to a lab—most were perfect little spheres.
Dan
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