Finding Meteorites On Your Roof
Finding micro meteorites on your roof.
Finding meteorites on your roof. Posted on 22 june 2016 by jay tate. A better method to collect meteorites that doesn t force you to go to the beach is to put a bucket under your houses rain spouts. It is estimated that anywhere from 37 000 to 78 000 tons of meteorites hit earth s surface each year. That might seem a bit high but the vast majority of this figure is made up of.
Get permission to search the area. Your best shot at finding an intact meteorite is to look in a place that stays hot and dry. If your gutters are substantially dirty or debris filled cleaning them out first and then leafing through the debris on the ground might be your best bet. But the meteorite didn t do any damage because it was the size of a piece of dust.
Deserts are one of the best climates to search. Finding micro meteorites on your roof. In search of stardust. The first step is to keep safety in mind when you re up on a ladder or crouching on your roof scanning your gutters for meteorites.
Dried up lake beds are great too. Norwegian mineralogist jon larsen has written a book called in search of stardust where he outlines how anyone can find micrometeorites. Meteorites as you mentioned rain down as dust all the time. In search of stardust.