How many meteorites fall to earth.
How many meteorites fall to earth.
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Numerous fireballs or meteorites have been seen in the sky lately, in the USA, in Turkey and in Venezuela; The big question is: are they falling more than normal, how much is normal, how many fall to the ground every year, according to research carried out by British experts from the University of Manchester and Imperial College London that they carried out between 2019 and 2020 they calculated that about 17,000 meteorites fall to Earth per year, with a volume of about 40,000 tons of extraterrestrial material that is added to the mass of our planet every year.
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But there are two things that are changing radically. The first is that today practically all humans already have a video camera at hand on our mobile phones and ready to be used in a matter of seconds, making it easier to capture one of these events, to which we must add a billion security and traffic cameras.
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