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meteorite

[mee-tee-uh-rahyt] / ˈmi ti əˌraɪt /


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There are seagull puppets, a tandem bicycle, an oil stain in the shape of a rabbit, a meteorite.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

By dating zircon crystals taken from granite altered by the impact, the team determined that the meteorite struck about 370 million years ago during the Late Devonian.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

Grizedale Observatory near Ambleside, Cumbria, opened in May 2024, offering public access to telescopes, a planetarium and meteorite laboratory, as well as staging a dark skies festival and other events.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Not long afterward, a meteorite weighing more than two pounds punched through the roof of a home in Hillsborough, New Jersey.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026

Collisions among the asteroids happen frequently, and occasionally a piece is chipped off and accidentally intercepts the Earth, falling to the ground as a meteorite.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

"Those small meteorites fall in a narrow strip on the ground."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

CI meteorites are carbon-rich remnants of the early Solar System that have undergone relatively little alteration over billions of years.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

They are exceptionally uncommon among meteorites recovered on Earth.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

We do already have some fragments of the Red Planet here on Earth in the form of Martian meteorites.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Each day, millions of meteorites fall against the outer limits of the membrane and are burned to nothing by the friction.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas


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