Whether a semantic tweak is required depends on how you look at the
question. If you are asking how much of a meteorite's parent body was lost,
there's no problem; it's never 100%. It is only in asking how much of a
meteoroid survives ablation that you have to deal with the fact that it's
usually 0%.
Chris
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <[email protected]>
To: "Richard Kowalski" <[email protected]>; "meteorite list"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 10:08 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] How much survives entry?
There's a semantic tweak to whatever answer
is given. We presume on good evidence that
many meteoroids result in no meteorite at all
reaching the Earth. That is our assumption,
at any rate. In that case, the loss is... 100%
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