22 Mar
2017
22 Mar
'17
5:10 p.m.
My understanding is that "perfect little spheres" is a good indicator, but not a foolproof guarantee of meteoric origin. YMMV. On 3/22/17, Richard Tenney via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
I was wondering about this too -- I'm sure blowing dust picks up a fair amount of iron particulate that may be non-meteoritic. So "perfect little spheres" is (mostly) a guarantee they are micro-meteorites?/R
From: Daniel Holmes <danielh@holmesonics.com> To: Utah-astronomy Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 2:51 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Micro-meteorites in today's NYT
Yeah, this was when Jen was at the U, and had access to a lab—most were perfect little spheres.
Dan