Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
meteorite .
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- noun An
achondrite consisting mostly ofaugite with someolivine andtroilite
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Examples
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Some of the angrite meteorites in this study formed just 3 million years after the birth of the solar system itself, 4,568 million years ago, and show signs that their parent body had a magnetic field that was 20 to 40 percent as strong as Earth's today.
YubaNet.com 2008
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A picture of the first discovered (and therefore eponymous) angrite "Angra dos Reis"; which was observed to fall from the sky in 1869 near the town of Angra dos Reis in Brazil.
YubaNet.com 2008
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