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- noun Plural form of
meteorite .
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Examples
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Radioactive meteorites from a meteor shower crash into a cemetery causing the dead to rise as flesh-eating zombies.
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In connection with neverceasing curiosity as to the constancy of the atomic weights, I wondered later whether or not iron in meteorites, possibly having its birth far beyond the limits of the solar system, might have a different atomic weight from ordinary iron.
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Small comets, such as we call meteorites, were picked up on the surface of the moon and put to this practical use.
Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World James Cowan
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Only those that enter Earth's atmosphere to create glowing streaks across the sky are labeled meteors, and any fragments that reach ground are called meteorites.
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Occasionally, larger objects survive, can be found on the ground and are known as meteorites.
WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2012
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Most of the shooting stars we see at night burn up in the Earth's atmosphere, but if they survive and fall to the ground, they are called meteorites.
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The solar heavy-element abundances described above are typically measured both using spectroscopy of the Sun’s photosphere and by measuring abundances in meteorites that have never been heated to melting temperatures.
Think Progress » Sarah Palin calls global warming studies ‘snake oil science.’ 2010
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People refer to meteorites as "space rocks", as if they're all the same.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Space History in DC -- Catch a Falling Star Zoe P. Strassfield 2011
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People refer to meteorites as "space rocks", as if they're all the same.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Space History in DC -- Catch a Falling Star Zoe P. Strassfield 2011
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People refer to meteorites as "space rocks", as if they're all the same.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Space History in DC -- Catch a Falling Star Zoe P. Strassfield 2011
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