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A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object, such as a comet , asteroid , or meteoroid , that originates in outer space and survives its passage through the Earth's atmosphere and impact with the Earth's surface. When the object enters the atmosphere, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"rock that falls to earth, after streaking across the sky as a meteor," 1818, from meteor + -ite .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Meteorite \Me"te*or*ite\, n. [Cf. F. m['e]t['e]orite.] (Min.) A mass of stone or iron which has fallen to the earth from space; an a["e]rolite. Note: Meteorites usually show a pitted surface with a fused crust, caused by the heat developed in ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. stony or metallic object that is the remains of a meteoroid that has reached the earth's surface
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE stony ▪ She had analysed four of the specimens and found that each belonged to a completely different class of stony meteorite ! ▪ Most stony meteorites range from about 1, 500 atmospheres down to about 100 atmospheres ...
Usage examples of meteorite.
Of particular interest are the breccias, which are broken fragments of meteorites that smashed into the Moon and broke up only to be compressed and cemented together with pre-existing Moon material, forming new rocks, the breccias, millions of years later.
Buckminster-fullerenes, more commonly called buckyballs, on meteorites.
Naturally occurring buckyballs had been found in the location of meteorite craters.
The Exploratorium has only a small piece because Martian meteorites are among the rarest rocks on Earth.
I discovered that the exoskeleton was an organic-inorganic matrix composed of carbon compounds and silicate minerals, primarily olivine, pyroxene, and magnetite, substances commonly found in meteorites.
Look at how swiftly this area was reinhabited after the meteorite had killed everybody in it.
It seemed to him that the object was falling too slowly to be a meteorite, but what did he know about representative intraatmospheric velocities of terminal substellar objects?
That freak meteorite need not lie there unsmelted for another seventy years.
There were still some meteorites coming in, making bright little winks of fire where they bit into the plain.
This indicates that the Terran archaea may have arrived on Earth in the SNC meteorites.
Nora saw an astonishing range of objects: mounted skeletons, fossils, glass-fronted cabinets full of wondrous and terrible artifacts, gems, skulls, meteorites, iridescent beetles.
Like tin, iron differs from copper and gold in never being found free in nature, except as the very rare meteorites that fall to earth.
Earth continued to be pelted relentlessly by comets, meteorites, and other galactic debris, which brought water to fill the oceans and the components necessary for the successful formation of life.
Yet both of them were speaking learnedly of meteors, prissily drawing the distinction between meteor and meteorite, smothering any anxiety in a torrent of comforting verbiage.
The dilemma appeared minor when compared to the overall scope of the meteorite, and yet, as an intel analyst, Rachel had witnessed the collapse of entire theories based on smaller snags than this.