Zou het kunnen... dat er microscopisch kleine meteorieten gewoon bij u in de dakgoot liggen? Stofdeeltjes die wellicht zelfs ouder dan ons zonnestelsel zijn?

An urban collection of modern-day large micrometeorites:

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/45/2/119/195213/An-urban-collection-of-modern-day-large

The atmospheric entry of fine-grained micrometeorites:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.13220

How high up are meteors when they begin to glow?

https://earthsky.org/space/at-what-altitude-do-meteors-become-incandescent/

Micrometeorite:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micrometeorite

Cosmic dust:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_dust

The classification of micrometeorites:

https://arizona.aws.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10150/656407/15566-17919-1-PB.pdf

In search of stardust: amazing micrometeorites and their terrestrial imposters:

https://archive.org/details/insearchofstardu0000lars

Interplanetary dust particles collected in the stratosphere: observations of atmospheric heating and constraints on their interrelationships and sources:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11538675/

A Direct Measurement of the Terrestrial Mass Accretion Rate of Cosmic Dust:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2882575

Sources of cosmic dust in the Earth’s atmosphere:

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/74234968.pdf

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