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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

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

The researchers studied microscopic grains inside a meteorite discovered in Antarctica in 2008.

From Science Daily ● 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

He thinks it is likely a large meteorite.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow

He gained international recognition for his lunar research before moving to Cambridge University, where he analysed meteorites found in Antarctica that were believed to have come from Mars.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Those bodies subsequently melted, destroying the physical evidence and making the oldest chondrules much harder to find in surviving meteorites.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

The parent bodies represented by these meteorites contained so much radioactive aluminum-26 that they eventually melted completely.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

The diversity of those compounds provides further evidence that the Hillsborough material experienced more extensive alteration by water than most other CM-type meteorites.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026

Such diamonds are already known to exist in meteorites that have survived impact, and that may originate ultimately from comets.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan


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