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		ianburrell on Oct 29, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 70% of meteorites from 3 collisions in asteroid be... We can't tell how many other collisions there were in belt from looking at the debris that intersect Earth. There were likely lots more that didn't kick debris our direction.

haccount on Oct 29, 2024 [–]

Any sufficiently energetic collision would produce a population of fragments that intersect the orbit of our planet.

The op headline is also using meteorite, which by definition is a rock which reaches the surface of the earth.

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