Meteorites : General Information

Meteoritics Planetary Science. Meteoritical Society. Research and Education on Meteorites. Study Includes Meteorite fragments from outer space, The Moon and from Mars.

Only some meteoroides make their passage through the atmosphere in one piece. Most meteorite are fragmented. Sometimes meteorite fragment into thousands of individual pieces creating a meteorite shower. the smaller meteorite fragments some times burn up but can thousands of meteorites can be collected from huge strewn fields.