Editing Meteorite (section)

==Sources of meteorites found on Earth==
Until recently,{{When|date=October 2024}} the source of only about 6% of meteorites had been traced to their sources: the Moon, Mars, and asteroid Vesta.<ref>Marvin, U. B. The discovery and initial characterization of Allan Hills 81005: the first lunar meteorite. Geophys. Res. Lett. 10, 775–778 (1983).</ref><ref>Treiman, A. H., Gleason, J. D. & Bogard, D. D. The SNC meteorites are from Mars. Planet. Space Sci. 48, 1213–1230 (2000).</ref><ref> Thomas, P. C. etal. Impact excavation on asteroid 4 Vesta: Hubble Space Telescope results. Science 277, 1492–1495 (1997).</ref> Approximately 70% of meteorites found on Earth now appear to originate from break-ups of three asteroids.<ref> M Brož, P Vernazza, M Marsset, FE DeMeo, RP Binzel, D Vokrouhlický, D Nesvorný. Young asteroid families as the primary source of meteorites. Nature 634, 566–570 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08006-7 </ref>