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The Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies was founded in 1960, on the Tempe Campus of Arizona State University, and houses the world's largest university-based meteorite collection. The collection contains specimens from over 1,600 separate meteorite falls and finds, and is actively used internationally for planetary, geological and space science ...
They compared the locations of the virtual comet clusters with the positions of the real comets to see how well they matched. The astronomers found that the positions of the actual parent comets ...
The Search for Our Beginning: An Enquiry Based on Meteorite Research into the Origin of Our Planet and of Life (1983) (with A.W.R Bevan and A.L. Graham) Catalogue of meteorites : with special reference to those represented in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London (1985) (with Andrew Graham) Meteorites: The Key to Our Existence (1992)
Those resulting fireballs, better known as "shooting stars," are meteors. If meteoroids survive their trip to Earth without burning up in the atmosphere, they are called meteorites, NASA says ...
Meteoritics [note 1] is the science that deals with meteors, meteorites, and meteoroids. [ note 2 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is closely connected to cosmochemistry , mineralogy and geochemistry . A specialist who studies meteoritics is known as a meteoriticist .
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ANSMET (Antarctic Search for Meteorites) is a program funded by the Office of Polar Programs of the National Science Foundation that looks for meteorites in the Transantarctic Mountains. This geographical area serves as a collection point for meteorites that have originally fallen on the extensive high-altitude ice fields throughout Antarctica .
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