Magnetism has nothing to do with concentrating meteorite falls. I can see where one might make that inference. Meteorites are found in Antarctica because, in several places, the flowing ice gets thrust up hill over a mountain ridge like a push-up popcicle. There the ice is ablated/scoured away by the wind. This leaves anything that has fallen into the ice left, or churned up by the ice lying on the surface. Meteorites and other rocks lie atop of the ice formation they were formerly buried in. Against the white background they are easier for researchers to find. I say this to make the point that not everything on the ice is a meteorite.
More meteorites may be"found" there but there is no evidence that more meteorites "fall" there.
Elton
meteoriteshow wrote:
Hi Doug and List,
I also wonder about another point on meteorite falls... Since I started hunting them, I thought that they can fall anywhere, the location of their landing place depending on their orbit around the sun and the angle they meet the Earth with. Is that right or are there any areas on our planet where they get more "attracted" ?
There have been more finds in Antarctic than anywhere else, but I guess that it's simply because people have been searching for them there for a longer time, but can it be for another reason ? Has the magnetic field linking the poles any effect (like for boreal auroras) ? ...
I'm not a scientist and maybe my question sounds strange, but should anybody have a clear and easy to understand explanation, thanks in advance for sending it, just for my knowledge.
Kind regards
Frederic Beroud
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