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Meteorites – by Alain Carion Geologic Publications and steepness of slopesMeteorites are by definition extraterrestrial objects that landed on Earth. About 100,000 tons of those objects fall to Earth every year, but 90% of them weigh less than one gram. In fact, although they have been preserved in mineral collections since the beginning of the nineteenth century, they were considered as just rocks until 1980. It was only then that scientists grasped the importance of those extraterrestrial rocks. Formed some 4. 57 billion