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Article: Meteorites: to stream or not to stream? (pattern of falling meteorites)
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- Science News
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- August 1, 1992
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Researchers say they have found compelling evidence that meteorites sometimes fall to Earth in streams. Their report, greeted with skepticism by some experts, bucks the traditional view of how these rocky bodies, which typically represent fragments of an asteroid, make their way to our planet.
The scientists base their findings on the location and chemical analysis of a set of meteorites that struck Earth during the 19th century. Spurred by recent suggestions that some meteorites travel in groups, a team led by Michael E. Lipschutz of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., and Robert T. Dodd of the State University of New York at Stony Brook searched through ...