Earth Sciences 1086F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ernst Chladni, Meteorite Fall, Baetylus
15 Apr 2016
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Betyls: hebrew for home of god ; what ancient greeks and romans used to call. One of the earliest instances of witnessed meteorite fall was in nov. 7 1492 in france. Father of meteorites: ernst chladni, who published a book in 1774 of all compiled data he could nd about several meteorites. In 1801 the rst object in the space between mars and jupiter (asteroid belt) was seen by giuseppe piazzi, which he called ceres. Asteroid belt represents stuff that never assembled into a planet. Collisions that occur between things in the asteroid belt sometimes launches debris out of the relatively stable orbit into the orbit of space. If asteroids slam into the moon or mars with considerable force, chunks of the surface will break off into space and be pulled into earth"s orbit, aka another source of. Asteroid: a natural rocky object in space measuring 100m to several; hundred km in diameter.
