Identification help!

[David Entwistle]

Your reasoning is incorrect on a number of points.

Thanks Kieron,

They are good points that you make and I can't argue with them. Anyone care to improve on my terrible estimate of the average mass of meteorite that falls per unit area of the Earth's surface?

[brasky12]

Micrometeorites confuse the calculations maybe? 30,000 tons of the stuff falls each year, far more than the combined contents of the database -

http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/blo ... -my-house/

[Kieron]

I am sure that Norton covers this in one of his books but I don't have access to my copies at the moment. The subject of rates of impact of meteorite-sized objects (though not recovery rates) is discussed in the following paper by Philip Bland:

http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/ ... /1837/2793

Regards, Kieron

[brasky12]

David Hughes' paper on the topic from 1991, inspired by Glatton probably:

The Meteorite Flux - http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-d ... k_type=GIF

[Kieron]

David Hughes' paper on the topic from 1991, inspired by Glatton probably:

The Meteorite Flux - http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-d ... k_type=GIF

Thanks brasky12,

I couldn't read it all so I skipped to the conclusion:

"So in the British Isles, instead of having to wait just over ten years between located meteorite falls we predict that meteorites are actually hitting the surface about every three weeks".

Regards, Kieron