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New research shows most space rocks crashing into Earth come from a single source

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Each year , roughly 17,000 of these fireballs not only enter Earth ’s atmosphere, but survive the perilous journey to the surface.

Scientists know that while some of these meteorites come from the Moon and Mars , the majority come from asteroids.

The research was led by Miroslav Brož from Charles University in the Czech Republic , and Michaël Marsset from the European Southern Observatory in Chile .

The papers trace the origin of most meteorites to just a handful of asteroid breakup events.

In turn, they build our understanding of the events that shaped the history of the Earth and the entire solar system.

In understanding these source asteroids, we can view the events that shaped our planetary system.

In determining the source asteroid body, these reports provide the foundations for missions to visit the asteroids responsible for the most common outerspace visitors to Earth .

In understanding this asteroid body we can see how the events shaped our planet system.

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