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Collected Extraterrestrial Materials: Constraints on Meteor and Fireball Compositions

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Leonid Storm Research

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The bulk density and bulk porosity of IDPs and various meteorite classes show that protoplanet accretion and evolution were arrested at different stages as a function of parent body modification. The collected IDPs, micrometeorites and meteorites are aggregates of different structural entities that were inherited from the earliest times of solar system evolution. These structural entities and the extent of parent body lithification will determine the material strength of the meteoroids entering the Earth’ s atmosphere. There is a need for measurements of the material strength of collected extraterrestrial materials because they will in part determine the nature of the chemical interactions of descending meteors and fireballs in the atmosphere. High—precision determinations of meteor and fireball compositions are required to search for anhydrous, carbon-rich proto-CI material that has survived in the boulders of comet nuclei.

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  1. Institute of Meteoritics, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M., 87131, USA

    Frans J. M. Rietmeijer

  2. Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics, MS 691, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA

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  3. The Wise Observatory and the School of Physics and Astronomy, Beverly and Raymond Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, PO Box 39040, 69978, Tel Aviv, Israel

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Rietmeijer, F.J.M., Nuth, J.A. (2000). Collected Extraterrestrial Materials: Constraints on Meteor and Fireball Compositions. In: Jenniskens, P., Rietmeijer, F., Brosch, N., Fonda, M. (eds) Leonid Storm Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2071-7_25

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