Why So Many Meteorites Come From The Same Place

To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:

• Asteroid: A rocky body smaller than a planet that is orbiting the sun.
• Meteoroid: A smaller rocky body moving in the solar system.
• Meteor: A meteoroid that has entered the Earth’s atmosphere.
• Meteorite: A meteor that hits the Earth.
• Orbital resonance: A force that occurs when orbiting bodies exert a regular, periodic gravitational influence on each other, because of the length of their relative orbits.
• Kirkwood Gap: A dip in the distribution of main belt asteroids that correspond to the locations of orbital resonances with Jupiter.

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