[meteorite-list] Fwd: New Issue: Fossil Meteorites

From: star-bits_at_comcast.net <star-bits_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:32:48 2004
Message-ID: <031020041740.27252.47d3_at_comcast.net>

Hello Elton and all

  Thanks for posting this. I had heard about these fossil meteorites before, but always thought they were small millimeter sized objects. It was impressive seing pieces several centimeters across mixed in with the fossils.

--
Eric Olson
ELKK Meteorites
http://www.star-bits.com
> Interesting science effort on ID of fossil meteorites and meteorite flux 
> in the Devonian 480 million years ago.
> 
> Elton
> 
> Announcement from Planetary Science Research Discoveries [PSRD]
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> New this month: Tiny Traces of a Big Asteroid Breakup
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> Fossil meteorites and chromite grains record a hundred-fold increase in 
> the number of meteorites that fell 480 million years ago compared to the 
> meteorite influx today.
> 
> Full story at  <http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Mar04/fossilMeteorites.html>
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