SciShow Space: How to (Maybe) Find Your Own Little Amazing Meteorite

Teacher or professor: SciShow Space
Subject: Astronomy, Astronautics, Astrophysics
Content of the Lesson: Most of the meteorites that land on this planet are pretty tiny. And enough of them fall to Earth each day that, theoretically, you could find micrometeorite yourself. Host: Reid Reimers SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/45/2/119/195213/an-urban-collection-of-modern-day-large https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2014JA020383 https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=91984 https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/can-you-really-find-micrometeorites-in-your-gutter-well https://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/content/sites/default/files/documents/nano-lab-safety.pdf https://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/IlanaPrice.shtml https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/up-on-the-roof-a-handful-of-urban-stardust/ https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/cosmic-dust-hunt.html https://www.pnas.org/content/106/17/6904 http://solarviews.com/eng/edu/micromet.htm https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol60/iss1/47/ https://eos.org/articles/urban-micrometeorites-no-longer-a-myth https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/science/space-dust-on-earth.html?_r=0 https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-hunt-micrometeorites/ https://eos.org/articles/urban-micrometeorites-no-longer-a-myth https://www.wired.com/story/jon-larsen-amazing-micro-meteorites/ ------ Images: https://www.eso.org/public/videos/esocast82b/ https://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic0310d/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Light_microscope_images_of_stony_cosmic_spherules.png https://www.videoblocks.com/video/meteors-flying-through-nebula-abstract-loopable-background-hwicwhngliw5e3isc https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/flat-magnet-icon-gm501279267-43706842 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/plastic-bag-isolated-on-transparent-background-empty-transparent-plastic-pocket-bag-gm845299216-138369345 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/flat-design-healthcare-microscope-icon-with-side-shadow-gm869095000-144586233 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/yard-waste-bags-recycled-gm912400746-251182369 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/snow-melting-on-a-roof-into-a-gutter-sadt_mge4jpmvys4k https://www.flickr.com/photos/waiferx/2956954530/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/jsjgeology/48702524843/in/photolist-2hcFaSc-y6Jek9 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Back-Scattered_Electron_Micrograph_of_Coal_Fly_Ash_small.tif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cross_sections_of_different_micrometeorite_classes.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14763724531/ https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/45/2/119/195213/an-urban-collection-of-modern-day-large https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Micrometeorite.jpg


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