Tiny meteorites are everywhere. Here’s how to find them. 

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Both travel at the speed of light. LIGO confirmed that gravitational waves also travel at the speed of light. @Tony Stark

Why does it feel good to poop?

Please do a video on the double slit experiment

Light fidelity technology

@Janis Hey! :)

I was thinking the exact same thing.

Yep. Jon transferred his passion for Jazz into a passion for these micrometeorites. Cool.

Aspect Science: Well, it just goes to show that he's not a dilettante.

Anybody can be a scientist as long as they follow the scientific method.

Definitely

@Daniel Kintigh They are owned by Vox so it's not rare at all.

Don't title it "here's how to find them.." if you did not found them!!

@Daniel Kintigh You are probably right. I have not considered that and they should have mentioned it or linked some papers on the topic if there are actually some.

@Recreational Plutonium Why should it be a paid comment? I liked this video as well. He got 800 likes, so he's probably not alone :D

@Samuel Shin Uhhhh. Can't all that go on simultaneously? Or do we need to prioritize?

Veritasium, Vox, Sci Show, Vintage Space, Physics Girl.. all have been doing great too :)

Ever heard of vsause or vertasium or smartereveryday, they are really good check them out

So long they don't try to be "edgy and suspenseful" science is entertaining done right and boring done wrong, when you start doing something for "the sake of the show" instead of "the sake of science"

I agree! This channel is just getting better and better!

There's nothing more pompous than saying that something is "exquisite".

The amount of disdain you expressed over word choice is simply exquisite.

@@joshuatatro4503 Flabbergasting.

Absolutely loving the content!

Meteor?

@MinuteEarth I look forward to everyone's comets in the discussion

And parts of it were just out of this world.

The subject of micro-metoerites had little impact on me.

There is no more _space_ for puns like these!

Colonel RPG Oh. Was not expecting to see you here Colonel

@@TrufasMushroom Hi there! :D

yeah that is weird

With how small they are they probably made it through the lid gap. They should have submerged them in vials full of water.

@@SaneAsylum Nice try Jon

@@victorunbea8451 Hahahaha

@Blind Bob One word... AAAAAAAAACHO

This needs a spoiler alert

@@ohboy1113 Or just read comments after the video

SaltySoySauce Do you honestly only read comments after the video?

@@ohboy1113 Isn't that the point 🤔

SaltySoySauce I don’t know but I don’t have the patience for that.

They did show HOW to find them. They said themselves that they did not find any.

James Henry no, they showed you how to look for them then, not how to find them.

Yeah, I laughed when i watched the original video... using a magnet on a building's rooftop🤦‍♂️

oh no they found some, the dude who took said there wasnt anything in container stole the stardust.

That's science. It's just the boring part, the one you grind until you get results so you can change your hypothesis or reevaluate the process you used to get those results so you could try again.

Justin Y. First like

The King HAS RETURNED!

You are everywhere

Unfortunately, most of the spherical ones are the iron oxide spherules that turned out to be duds. They were still really amazing to look at, but overall nowhere near as close to the actual micrometeorites that Jon has found. He's sending us an actual MM to check out, and we'll post it somewhere to show! - Cory

We know you snuck out the true samples.

Hi Benjamin, it is! I have suggested to arrange for a workshop where we can go stardust hunting together. Meanwhile more info (daily updates) at facebook.com/micrometeorites - see you there!

I agree with Benjamin Xue. Is there any way we can get involved. I personally have found something very similar but much older, glassy carbon schedules in the shell of a Keokuk geode from the Warsaw formation in an outcropping in Keokuk, Iowa, approximately 340 million years old. They are jet black and I ran into the same problem in viewing them under higher magnification. When initial focus is achieved just a pinprick at the top center comes into focus, after that a Taurus or ring as you focus further down, making it very difficult to get a good look. These varied in size from nearly 2mm down to micrometer in size. Some where broken and small gas pockets were observed. When tested it was found that the gas pockets contained isotopes of He3 and He4. In my region are anticlinal structures that form wave sets where there is a large primary wave followed by secondary, tertiary, quaternary ad infinitum . The amplitude of each wave in a set decreases and the distance between each wave in a set decreases and appear to coalesce in a northeasterly direction. There are multiple wave sets stretching out across SE Iowa, NE MO, and west central ILL. There is a slight change of angle from one set to the next indicating that these are lines tangent to the arc of a great circle. When I penciled in the center of the arc in a rudimentary fashion on an old atlas of N America I found the center to be near Sudbury Ontario Canada. This was back in 1984 I think. When I researched what could be found around Sudbury, which I had never heard of prior to this I found that the area had a robust mining industry and when i found what they were mining i got pretty excited. Pt group metals, in unbelievably huge amounts! I thought possibly that this may be the Permian Impactor but the site has been dated since then to much earlier, something like 1.4 b. I beg to disagree but many folks with that magic two letters in front of their name, ie., Dr. tell me I'm nuts. I have no doubt that the rocks in the area are that old but my contention is that it is not what's there that dates the impact , it is what is not there anymore, what was blasted, vaporized and subsequently eroded over the millennia that followed. All of the basement complexes of granites that underlie the state of IA are tilted upward in the direction of Sudbury , which I believe to be the central uplift or bulge to one of the most catastrophic events in our planets history. One that wiped out 90+% of all life on our planet. Sorry I was so long winded but it is kind of complicated. If anyone is interested I do have some rudimentary photo's of the glassy carbon spherules taken with a cheap add on microscope on my stupidphone. I would appreciate any comments and especially any help in resolving my dilemma. Just for kicks I would also like help in getting to Canada to investigate an unrelated , so far unidentified impact structure i stumbled across in Southern Ontario, actually possibly a double impact, one approx 2km across the other about .5km which slightly overlaps the larger. I can't afford to do it myself and I am getting old and not as mobile as I once was. Finding and identifying a previously unknown structure would be quite an adventure and feather in the cap of anyone involved. I doubt if there is anything of value other than prestige to be gained. s.a.m. aka; GENERALISSIMO MAXIMUS MAYHEM CHAOS GRAND SUPREME HIGH COMMANDER CHAOS SUPREME HIGH COMMAND HEADQUARTERS Is there anybody out there?

Duh , might help if I left an address. chaossupremeuniversalcmdhq@gmail.com

@Will Pack "According to some calculations, the Earth is losing 50,000 metric tons of mass every single year, even though an extra 40,000 metric tons of space dust converge onto the Earth’s gravity well, it’s still losing weight."

@Ewa Feen and how does that suppose to correlate with earth getting bigger/smaller

That's testament to Verge Science's great story-telling and video production abilities! And I completely agree!

Damn! Good spot! That's sweet!

Clever!

Crystalline forms of some metal(s) most probably. Check out bismuth crystals, pretty cool.

Iluminati confirmed

I thought the same. Also a motorized microscope stage is needed

@Luca Onorati Not a major problem. We have a lot of terrestrial examples and there are unsupervised techniques like clustering or outlier detection that can help find micrometeroites.

We already tried it at Inatrode!

Ram THom Did it work, out of interest?

@@harryflashman8996 Oh shoot, i was trying to troll and make a office space joke about it...lol but its not a bad idea

We're excited to get your micrometeorite in the mail so we know what to look for next time!! Thanks for your help through this, Jon & Jan. - Verge Science

@@VergeScience Let's do a workshop/field search together one day. With some some preparation we may get access to a couple of favourable roofs, and I'll gladly walk a group of interested people through the entire process. I have actually just finished a short presentation of the methodology: www.amazon.com/Search-Stardust-Micrometeorites-Terrestrial-Imposters-dp-076035264X/dp/076035264X/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= - but nothing beats the real thing!

@@VergeScience I think I've spotted two weak points in this presentation, which could be the reason why no micrometeorites were found and why most of the spherules you sent to me were industrial metal (iron oxide) spheres: At 3:07 I am quoted that app. 80% of the micrometeorites are "metallic", which is not correct. This should have been that app. 80% of the micrometeorites are magnetic. The interstitial metal (magnetite crystals) is not neccessary visible at all, and most micrometeorites apper as elongated black "stones", and not metallic spheres. Only app. 2% (!) of the micrometeorites are rond metallic spheres, and these are still indistinguishable from the most common type of industrial sherules. Statistically you would have found 98 stony micrometeorites before you encounter your first metallic micrometeorite, and by then you would have seen millions of industrial metal spherules. Secondly, at 4:07 you use a 300µm mesh, but most micrometeorites are around to 300µm, so you might have screened a too small fraction. I recommend to focus on the fraction 200 to 400 µm. At a regular basis micrometeorites >400µm and even >500µm do apper, and they are much easier to recognize than the smallest (1200 to 200µm fraction) because you can see the characteristic Surface textures more clearly. With experience things get easier. Just for fun I calculated that on a hunting day on the roof I have found up to one micrometeorite every tenth minute, he-he! Btw, here is the book you use in this otherwice excellent presentation: www.amazon.com/Search-Stardust-Micrometeorites-Terrestrial-Imposters-dp-076035264X/dp/076035264X/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= - it has one full chapter about the iron oxides, the imposterous metal spheres. Happy hunting!

50 years later: "hehe pulled a sneaky on ya", read his diary which was recovered from late Jon Larsen's home...

Same here

I'm actually so keen to now! If only I had the resources or expertise to do this! Although based on Cory's face at the end the process looks extremely exhausting and soul-crushing if you don't find any!

Do you watch on a 4K tv?

Making them *_INTELLECTUAL GAINZ_*

No it isn't, Micrometeorites are formed at 500 degree Celsius or above, at that temperature the DNA strands would split up and form Nitrates, Nitrites, Carboxides, and Hydrieds, although if the Micrometeorites had not being crystalline in structure , the UV radiations from the sun could have reverse combined them into DNA or RNA.

Probably whole particle would be covered with bacteria. All from earth of course. There Is no way dna molecule would make it through extreme temp during atmosphere entrance.

There is, a whole mini universe on each square inch of skin.

We are :( Jon is sending the samples back, so I'm going to check the boxes and see if they just weren't spotted. The ones that were lost were non-metallic, so they were just rolling around the boxes, which probably made them difficult to find.

not that valuable unless big^^

Those tiny beads are worth nothing

How are snowflakes not alike?

That's true! Jon Larsen should collab with someone like Andrew Ng

Can you explain more on what you mean for a lay person? Do you mean an actual robot sorting through piles of dust, or having people upload their findings to a database and function like google reverse image search?

Sounds like a nightmare, why not pay experts instead

You made a looooong novel about hate oof

Teehee😁😃

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@@crouchingwombathiddenquoll5641 🤓👍🏼😂

F-off you imbecile.

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Not all are there was one that was elongated. But i would guess most of them are spherical as they tumble when entering the atmosphere and therefore heat is distributed uniformally around the micrometeorite, also the size of them doesnt allow enough heat to be deflected on one side stopping the other side being heated therefore yiu get a uniform temperature distribution in and around them. Ut we should never ever assume, so they should perhaps experiment and work out why.

@@falsehoodrefuted true i did guess that, anyway thnxx for the info, hope to know more about it.

They are big enough to not vaporize when they hit the atmosphere, yet completely melt. The surface tension of a suspended liquid makes it minimize its surface area - and a sphere is the minimal surface for a given volume in 3D space. They're small enough that they quickly lose heat and solidify in that shape as they continue to fall to Earth.

@@timeastman8319 see thats a more scientific answer right there. And that actually makes sense as well.

@@timeastman8319 so similar to how you drop water from a high building it spreads and forms droplets in a size that it dictated by the surface tension and also i believe the atmospheric pressure has a difference as well.

We were just as bummed as you!! - Cory