Meteors are pieces of rock, ice or other debris from outer space that fall into the earth's atmosphere. Meteorites are the remnants of those objects that manage to make it all the way to the earth's surface without burning up.
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How and when meteorites formed is a subject of scientific theorizing. Scientists look at what they know--the form and composition of meteorites as the see it in the laboratory and the form and composition of the universe as they see it through their telescopes.
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www.meteoritemarket.com/form.htm
www.meteoritemarket.com/form.htm
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Use this part of The Meteorite Market to learn about meteorites. Follow the links to other Web pages on meteorites and related topics: ... How and when did meteorites form in the first place? ... The Meteorites and Impacts Advisory Committee (MIAC) to the Canadian Space Agency, a volunteer group of geologists and astronomers...
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www.meteoritemarket.com/Learn.htm
www.meteoritemarket.com/Learn.htm
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Some meteorites even contain dust grains that existed in interstellar space before the Solar System formed. ... Some meteorites formed on asteroids that melted, so contain information about melting processes on small bodies with low gravitational fields.
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www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu/class_acts/Meteor.html
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Meteorites come from many different sources. The fact that many are made of iron/nickel, 'stony' or 'carbonaceous' means that there were parent bodies that had evolved to become chemically differentiated prior to being smashed into the smal...
http://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/q2164.html
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Look up at the sky at night and chances are you may see a shooting star. This is actually not a star at all; rather, it is a piece of material from space falling through the earth's atmosphere....
http://www.ehow.com/tag/meteorites/
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The term meteor comes from the Greek meteoron, meaning phenomenon in the sky. ... These meteorites formed when molten metal segregated from less dense silicate material and cooled, showing another type of melting behavior within meteorite parent bodies.
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www.solarviews.com/eng/meteor.htm
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To better understand the environment that formed the Earth, Purdue researchers are studying 29 meteorites that formed in our planet's neighbourhood. Scientists believe the Earth collided with a Mars-sized planet early on, which changed its chemical makeup (and helped to form the Moon). ... "Shortly after the early Earth formed,
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www.universetoday.com/2005/09/28/meteorites-shared-the-...
www.universetoday.com/2005/09/28/meteorites-shared-the-earths-early-history/
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METEORITES are the best evidence we have of how the Solar System began. Some types of meteorite have remained almost unchanged since then, unlike rocks on Earth which have been melted and recrystallised into entirely different forms.
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www.newscientist.com/article/mg12717344.000-a-cosmic-ca...
www.newscientist.com/article/mg12717344.000-a-cosmic-cake-mix-can-primitive-meteorites-tell-us-whathappened-before-the-solar-system-was-formed-.html
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