Meteorites In Gutters

Magnet picked up roof shingle granules in the gutters.

Meteorites in gutters.

That might seem a bit high but the vast majority of. At that time meteorites and micro meteorites were not as well understood as they are now. The recent study recovered a fascinating array of micrometeorites from the urban rooftops of oslow norway and paris france. While meteors fly around in earth s atmosphere quite often they usually burn up almost completely leaving only near invisible meteorite particles to float down onto the planet s surface or onto rooftops and into gutters.

Are these micro meteorites. So i collected the mud but. If you clean your gutters all you have to do is dump the gunk into a baggie hold a strong magnet next to it and the small bit of iron common in meteorites even stony ones will cause them to be pulled over. I ran a magnet through a little pile of shingle granules in the gutters and found metal particles and flakes.

Just an attempt to find meteorite in downspout area based on other youtube videos. He had some on show and a magnet and sure enough the meteorites were attracted to the magnet. I was reminded of this thread from a few years back about the constant rain of micrometeories on the roof. To collect these small iron spheres scrape several handfuls of mud from a convenient roof gutter preferably a plastic one add to a bucket of water and stir.

Micrometeorites for your study. This article inspired many people to comb through their rain gutters with magnets. He explained that as an outreach activity he had asked people to bring in the sludge out of their gutters and in the experiment mixed the sludge with water in a jam jar and wafted a magnet around in the water to attract the metallic fragments. Micrometeorites are notoriously difficult to study in their pristine state but project stardust has been collecting the sediment from urban rooftop gutters for the past seven years in a bid to find them.

I noticed that the water butt had fallen over during the winter and the mud at the bottom had dried out. Must know before i lecture on meteorites. Hi all being a lovely day i was out tidying the garden. Are there metal flakes or any metal at all in the granule protective layer of asphalt shingles.