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Old February 19th 13, 12:27 AM posted to uk.sci.astronomy
David Staup
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Default The total mass of meteorites


"valtih1978" wrote in message
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Some good people say that "2900-7300 kilograms per year hit Earth". Why
this information is banned from Wikipedia? Secondly, 2013 Russian meteor
"weighed about 10 tons before it entered the Earth's atmosphere"

Am I read right? Is it really a single meteorite weights the mass of all
meteorites per year? How much mass do meteorite loose when burning in the
atmosphere?



The russian meteor was of a size that hits the earth but once every 100
years on average.

factor that into the equation and it makes sense

every bit of the mass eventually hits the earth as nothing is "burned" so
much as ablaited