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Moment Of Um

Where does the metal in meteors come from?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Outer space is far from empty. There are chunks of space rock zipping around, and occasionally one of them finds its way through our atmosphere to smack into Earth’s surface. There’s usually metal contained within those space rocks…but where does the metal come from? We asked planetary geologist Paul Byrne to help us find the answer.


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0:34.0

From the brains behind, Brands On, this is Moment of Elm comes to you from APM Studios.

0:52.9

I'm Sandin Totten.

0:54.4

Um...

0:57.4

Lately, I've gotten super in the metal.

0:59.8

Not the style of music, I mean actual metal. I think tin and zinc and aluminum are pretty cool.

1:12.0

Oh in Tungsten, Now that's heavy metal.

1:15.0

No, I mean, uh, Tungsten weighs a lot. Yeah, heavy, get it? Okay. Anyway, I found out today that some of the

1:26.7

metal on our planet came from outer space. Isn't that incredible?

1:33.0

Space metal usually comes from meteorites.

1:36.0

You know those clumps of space rock that crashed through our atmosphere without totally burning up?

1:41.0

But wait, if there's metal in those space rocks, how did it get there?

1:47.0

Eli was curious too.

1:49.0

Where does the metal in meteorites come from?

1:55.0

So, really briefly, most of it comes from stars.

1:59.0

My name is Paul Byrne.

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