How scientists use fossil meteorites to study Earth's past

Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. Fossils are the remains of living things like dinosaurs, right? Not necessarily. Fossil METEORITES are totally a thing! They're rare, but when scientists find them, they help fill in the picture of Earth's ancient past. Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Matt Curls, Alisa Sherbow, Dr. Melvin Sanicas, Harrison Mills, Adam Brainard, Chris Peters, charles george, Piya Shedden, Alex Hackman, Christopher R, Boucher, Jeffrey Mckishen, Ash, Silas Emrys, Eric Jensen, Kevin Bealer, Jason A Saslow, Tom Mosner, Tomás Lagos González, Jacob, Christoph Schwanke, Sam Lutfi, Bryan Cloer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishowFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources: https://www.astronomy.com/news/2017/11/the-story-of-the-fossil-meteorites https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4419-8694-8_17 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4419-8694-8_17 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/maps.13307 https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?bibcode=1996M%26PSA..31...76L&db_key=AST&page_ind=0&data_type=GIF&type=SCREEN_VIEW&classic=YES http://www.deepseadrilling.org/86/volume/dsdp86_03.pdf https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-48327-6_11 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/11035890401264321 https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14066 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X20303861?via%3Dihub https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12815 https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1996LPI....27..717K https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2008.tb00669.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2009.tb00720.x https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/12/2/54 https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2021/pdf/6092.pdf https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2020977118 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009281913000354 https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/micrometeorite https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026240792101472X https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/books/edited-volume/2351/chapter/132712259/Impact-crater-ages-and-micrometeorite-paleofluxes https://doi.org/10.1093/astrogeo/atab069 https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo.2007.37 Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GlomarChallengerBW.JPG https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/581522 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/seymouria-royalty-free-image/1127138106?phrase=fossil&adppopup=true https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/910860 https://www.nasa.gov/connect/chat/meteorite1.html https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/the-metal-meteorite-surface-close-up-as-background-royalty-free-image/1417090700?phrase=meteorite%20texture&adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/an-asteroid-falls-to-earth-the-asteroid-spins-and-flies-stock-footage/1284088352?adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/asteroid-or-meteorite-gyrating-on-black-background-stock-footage/698054598?adppopup=true https://www.google.com/url?q=https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/books/edited-volume/2351/chapter/132712259/Impact-crater-ages-and-micrometeorite-paleofluxes&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1682088612929817&usg=AOvVaw2dByDpjfR7Xo7DPZ9h3Z-v https://images.nasa.gov/details/ACD17-0168-009 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/earth-and-meteor-shower-royalty-free-image/1365879699?phrase=meteor%20shower%20ocean&adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/horseshoe-crab-shell-stock-footage/512987183?adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/limestone-striations-royalty-free-image/172274563?adppopup=true https://www.flickr.com/photos/jsjgeology/48954309103 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/close-up-view-of-the-solar-flares-on-the-surface-of-the-stock-footage/1283534509?adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/shoal-of-fish-swimming-around-in-4k-stock-footage/1126878199?adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/railway-tracks-and-trains-in-stockholm-sweden-royalty-free-image/1003399888?phrase=sweden