Sentence examples for meteorite population from inspiring English sources
They are also highly non-representative sampling of primitive solar system material because the terrestrial meteorite population is dominated by the ejecta of stochastic impacts and because the atmosphere filters out all but the toughest rocks.
The new study adds evidence to the idea that Jupiter temporarily split the population of meteorites in the solar system in two: those between Jupiter and the sun, and those beyond Jupiter.
The oil is revealed to be a tool used by the Colonists, brought to Earth by meteorites to create hosts of the human population living there.
"This was the first time in modern, medieval or ancient history when a meteorite fell in an area with a high density population.
Current hypotheses include (1) that these two populations correspond to two different phases in the meteorite or (2) that they are due to two different particle sizes.
Governor Yurevich reported that a meteorite had landed in a lake 1km outside Chebarkul, which has a population of 46,000.
Meteorites analysed to date, however, are unlikely to be representative of the entire population and it is also possible that changes in their nature have occurred with time1.
Our data show that the meteorite flux has varied over geological time as asteroid disruptions create new fragment populations that then slowly fade away from collisional and dynamical evolution.
The general drop-off in the frequency of meteorites with older exposure ages and the upper limit for most stony meteorites of 50 million years are consistent with estimates that half of any given meteoroid population is eliminated by collisions in 5 10 million years.
However, if this hypothesis were correct, then we may expect four populations, instead of two, since the EDS data show four different phases in the meteorite sample.
It could no longer be just a coincidence". Way out in the main belt, the population is much more varied, and approximates the mix of types that is found among meteorites.
