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Meteorite

noun

Stony or metallic object that is the remains of a meteoroid that has reached the earth's surface.

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"Meteorite" Quotes from Famous Books

... the calculator. "If we assume a mean density of two point six six times ten to the minus thirty-sixth metric tons per cubic micromicron, we attain a mean mass of some one point seven four times ten to the eleventh kilograms." More punching, while he kept his eye on the meteorite, waiting for the spot to show up again. "And that, my dear Jules, gives us a surface gravity of approximately two times ten to the ...

— Anchorite • Randall Garrett

... must have produced considerable atmospheric disturbance. But the recent discovery that a number of comets are associated with meteoric matter, travelling in nearly the same orbits, suggests the inquiry whether an enormous meteorite following in the comet's train, and having a somewhat less perihelion distance, may not have been precipitated upon the sun, thus producing the great disturbance observed so shortly after ...

— Myths and Marvels of Astronomy • Richard A. Proctor

Words linked to "Meteorite" : meteoritic, meteor, micrometeor, siderite, micrometeoroid, meteoroid, pallasite, micrometeorite, meteoritical, aerolite