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It's hard to not believe in meteorites when your environment is desert or snowfields .. micro meteorites are a steady infall and people with sharp eye notice small black rocks appearing on previously clean sand and snow.

( If your routinely clean your gutters and pick through the silt with a strong magnet you'll likely find micro meteorites sooner or later )




On the way to my gutter right now, magnet in hand..


We started a little thing here in Western Australia that's spread across the world .. no, not a novel Australian STD, but:

https://dfn.gfo.rocks/

https://gfo.rocks/

    The Global Fireball Observatory is an multi-institutional collaboration, with partner networks around the world. Our observatories take pictures of fireballs so we can recover any meteorites that might have landed on the ground.




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