A rock of meteoric origin containing chondrules

Usage examples of chondrite.

When they crashed into Earth in ancient times, the chondrites planted these seeds, and larger diamonds grew around them.

Lora, looked like any other dull carbonaceous chondrite from the outside, after all.

The meteorite was of a rare type known as a carbonaceous chondrite, and the townspeople helpfully collected and brought in some two hundred pounds of it.

A swarm of Utopian asteroids was closing on her, brain clans and mining DIs living in hollowed-out chunks of carbonaceous chondrite, any one of which could have mustered enough votes to abolish Mada in all ten dimensions.

Our one whatever it was, Lora, looked like any other dull carbonaceous chondrite from the outside, after all.

ESA probe about ten years later, and found to be a carbonaceous chondrite.

Divert all scanners to the asteroids and analyze anything that isn’t chondrites, achondrites, silicates, or metallic iron.

All three moons had large amounts of rock scattered over their icy surfaces, the remnants of meteoric impact for the most part, carbonaeous chondrite rubble, a very useful building material.

The settlers of the three moons had, on their arrival some thirty m-years before, rendered the chondrites and built tent frameworks of carbon nanotube similar to that used in Mars’.

But Spencer was pretty good at rock ID, and he collected several samples that he said were exotic carbonaceous chondrite, very likely to be pieces of the impact rock.

And if you reach a C-type, a carbonaceous chondrite, full of water and organic compounds, you can do what the hell you like.

But we think it's a C-type: a carbonaceous chondrite, not nickel-iron, like Reinmuth.

Five days later they arrived at the top of the cable, and decelerated into locks inside the ballast asteroid Clarke, now a much-tunneled chunk of carbonaceous chondrite, so filigreed with exterior buildings and interior chambers that it seemed more a spaceship or a city than Mars's third moon.

A fairly abundant type of meteorite on the earth, known as carbonaceous chondrite, is thought to consist of fragments from C-type asteroids in the main belt.

I have to spend a long minute thinking how I knew what a carbonaceous chondrite is.