Hi all: I am involved with a teacher professional development workshop this week and the teachers give us questions that they hope we can answer for them. I am fine with most of them (such is Pluto a planet?), but I figured that, before I give them a partially correct answer, I would ask the experts out there for their responses:
What is the rate at which things burn up when they enter EarthÂ’s atmosphere? About how much material is burned up (mass per unit time)? Along that same idea, for a "typical" chondritic meteoroid, what is the minimum size that you might expect to make it through the atmosphere and land as a meteorite? Ballpark is fine since, clearly there are many factors involved (initial velocity, angle of entry, material strength etc.). Thanks in advance. Larry ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
