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[00:00.00]NARRATOR: Listen to part of a lecture in an astronomy class.
[00:04.27]MALE PROFESSOR: OK, I want to go over the different types of meteorites…and what we've learned from them about the formation of Earth and the solar system. [00:13.30]Uh, the thing is, what's especially interesting about meteorites is that they come from interplanetary space, but they consist of the same chemical elements that are in matter originating on Earth, just in different proportions.
[00:28.66]But that makes it easier to identify something as a meteorite, as opposed to, to just a terrestrial rock. [00:36.93]So to talk about where meteorites come from, we need to talk about comets and asteroids, which basically, they're basically made up of debris left over from the origin of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago. [00:53.99]Now I'm going a bit out of order here, um, [00:57.57]I’m not going to go into any depth on uh comets and asteroids now, but we'll come back later and do that. [01:05.13]For now I'll just cover some basic info about them.
[01:09.42]OK, comets and asteroids… it might help if you think of… Remember we talked about the two classes of planets in our solar system? [01:20.99]And how they differ in composition…[01:24.11][reviewing] the terrestrial planets like Mars and Earth…composed largely of rocks and metals, [01:30.86]and the large gas giants like Jupiter. [01:34.97]Well, the solar system also has two analogous classes of objects smaller than planets…namely, asteroids and comets. Relatively near the Sun, in the inner solar system, between Jupiter and Mars to be precise. 
[01:53.63]We’ve got the asteroid belt, which contains about 90 percent of all asteroids orbiting the Sun. [02:00.82]These asteroids are uh, like the terrestrial planets, in that they're composed mostly of rocky material and metals. [02:10.59]Far from the sun...in the outer solar system, beyond Jupiters 'orbit...temperatures are low enough to permit ices to form out of water and…and out of gases like, uh, methane and carbon dioxide. [02:25.95]Loose collections of these ices and small rocky particles form into comets. [02:32.37]So comets are similar in composition to the gas giants.
[02:37.86]Both comets and asteroids are…typically are smaller than planets. [02:44.60]An even smaller type of interplanetary debris is the meteoroid. [02:50.71]And it’s from meteoroids that we get meteors and meteorites. [02:55.88]Meteoroids are…for the most part anyway…they're just smaller bits of asteroids and comets.
[03:02.46]When these bits enter Earth's atmosphere, well, that makes them so special that they get a special name. They are called “meteors.” [03:12.18]Most of them are very small and they burn up soon after entering Earth's atmosphere. [03:18.47]The larger ones that make it through the atmosphere and hit the ground are called meteorites. [03:25.34]So meteorites are the ones that actually make it through.
[03:29.91]Now, we've been finding meteorites on Earth for thousands of years. [03:33.92]And we've analyzed enough of them to learn a lot about their composition. Most come from asteroids…though a few may have come from comets…[03:42.47]so essentially they're rocks, [03:45.41]and like rocks they're mixtures of minerals. [03:48.41]They’re generally classified into three broad categories: stones, stony irons, and irons.
[03:57.51]Stone meteorites, which we refer to simply as, uh, stones, are almost entirely rock material. [04:05.73]They actually account for almost all of the meteorite material that falls to Earth. [04:11.14]But even so, it's rare to ever find one. [04:15.37]I mean, it's easier to find an iron meteorite or a stony iron. [04:20.39]Anyone guess why? [pause] [04:22.68]Look at their names. [04:24.59]What do you think iron meteorites consist of?
[04:27.78]FEMALE STUDENT: Mostly iron?
[04:29.19]MALE PROFESSOR: Yeah, iron and some nickel, both of which are metals. [04:33.66]And if you're trying to find metal?
[04:36.27]FEMALE STUDENT: Oh, metal detectors!
[04:38.57]MALE PROFESSOR: Right, thank you. [04:39.93]At least that’s part of it. [04:41.98]Stone meteorites...if they lie around, exposed to the weather for a few years, well, they’re made of rock so they end up looking almost indistinguishable from common terrestrial rocks...ones that originated on Earth. [04:56.86]So it's hard to spot them by eye.
[04:59.78]But we can use metal detectors to help us find the others, [05:03.60]and they're easier to spot by eye-- [05:06.04]so most of the meteorites in collections, uh, in museums they'll be, they're iron meteorites or the stony-iron kind even though they only make up about 5 percent of the meteorite material on the ground.

1.What is the main topic of the lecture?

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OK, I wanna go over the different types of meteorites, and what we've learned from them about the formation of Earth, and the solar system 同样在讲座最开头找答案,这一题有一些 tricky,最开始教授说要讲不同种 类的 meteoroids,但是后来用了大篇幅去解释它的起源,然后又给了meteoroid 的分类,最后才讲到了 meteorite,并对其进行分类阐述,所以其实讲座的main topic 是meteorite。其他的选项都太minor了。因此选择 C。

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