The defunct USSR spanned 12 time zones which is half way around the world. Russia was a big slice of that, making it a very large target for incoming space junk.
I was surprised to hear that Antarctica is prime hunting ground for meteorite debris. I wouldn't expect them to be found there for the same reason bugs hit a car's windshield a lot more than they hit the side windows.
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GtG
I was surprised to hear that Antarctica is prime hunting ground for meteorite debris. I wouldn’t expect them to be found there for the same reason bugs hit a car’s windshield a lot more than they hit the side windows.
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I was aalways under the impression that there is no real front in space. That is a human construct to make sense of it. So there would be as many meteorites coming towards that side of the world as any other.
I don’t think it is necessarily because there are that many more meteorites, it is just the fact that they stand out against the ice/snow.