How do you spot a meteorite?
- Some leave craters
- There is metal in them -- that is how you can tell them from Earth's rocks
- If you use a metal detector, it is much easier to find a meteorite.
The largest meteorite weighs about 60,000 tons and landed in Africa
Iron 60 is only created in a super nova
- Scientists are looking for meteorites that have Iron 60
Some scientists think that the super nova was what created our solar system:
- We started out as a cloud of gas
- When the super nova hit the could it collapsed and condensed, this created our sun
- It made stars then gravity pushed all gas and dust particles together
- This eventually created our solar system
NOT a fully accepted hypothesis but it is quite possible.
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