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Name: Sean Evans
Status: student
Age: 8
Location: N/A
Country: N/A
Date: 1993 - 1999
Question:
I would like to know about meteors. Have you collected any of them?

Replies:
Gee, Sean, I have not collected any. I wish that I had. It is very difficult to tell whether any rock that you find is part of a meteor. I suppose that if a rock looked different from the others it may be a candidate for a meteor. While lots of meteors do hit the atmosphere I have not heard about many that were large enough to hit the ground. I wonder how you would be able to tell them from other rocks? Why don't you look around and see if some of the rocks around you town could be meteors? I will have to ask geologists if they can tell the difference.

Samuel P Bowen


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