meteorite

Example Sentences

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The early Earth's makeup can be explained mostly as a mix of known meteorite types.

From Science Daily

Water was embedded in tiny glass beads in the lunar dirt where meteorite impacts occur.

From Seattle Times

The genre is dominated by apocalypse narratives — from “The Day After Tomorrow” to the more recent meteorite satire/allegory “Don’t Look Up” from director Adam McKay.

From Washington Post

And the region is also famed as the home of fragments from a massive iron meteorite that weigh in total some 58 tons.

From Science Magazine

Tarnas and his colleagues evaluated the grain sizes, mineral makeup and radioactive element abundance in Martian meteorites and estimated the Martian crust’s porosity using satellite and rover data.

From Scientific American