Philip Ball finds out why so many rocks are banished from the asteroid belt to fall to Earth as meteorites.
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Vokrouhlický, D. & Farinella, P. Efficient delivery of meteorites to the Earth from a wide range of asteroid parent bodies. Nature 407, 606 - 608 2000.
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Ball, P. Picking up the pieces. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news001005-9
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/news001005-9