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Most of Earth’s meteorites come from a few asteroid break ups
The Earth has been constantly hit by meteorites in its long life time, but scientists only now working out where they came from have found surprising results.
The Earth has been constantly hit by meteorites in its long life time, but scientists only now working out where they came from have found surprising results. New studies show that 70% of the 70,000 meteorites that have been found on Earth have come from 3 recent collisions in the main asteroid belt which sits between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The Massalia family was also a source of much older meteorites when it experienced another collision about 450 million years ago, the researchers found.
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