What is "meteoritic"

Usage examples of "meteoritic".

Those Icelanders-tough as the meteoritic iron Philippe had been using in his sculptures.

Three tiny, bright lights marked where the sheet had been hit by grains of meteoritic dust.

To either side of the railgun, the surface was scarred by the tracks of vehicles and workers and by the trenches from which the shattered regolith, lunar soil plowed by eons of meteoritic impacts, large and small, had been scooped.

Curiously enough, near the center, where most of the meteoritics have been found, is a crater with raised edges three quarters of a mile in diameter and about six hundred feet deep, bearing exactly the appearance which would be produced had a mighty mass of iron or falling star struck the ground, scattering in all directions, and buried itself deep under the surface.

Yvonne Pendleton and her colleagues at the NASA Ames Research Center find that the best spectral fit seems to be with meteoritic organic matter.