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meteorite
noun as in shooting star
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Those who made it to the end with him had the choice to return to the real world, where they awoke as survivors of a meteorite impact in Shibuya with no recollection of the Borderlands.
The object, which has been named the McDonough meteorite, is the 27th to have been recovered from Georgia.
At first, there was a sense of awe surrounding the public display of this extraordinary Martian find – less than 400 of the 50,000 meteorites discovered have been shown to come from our planetary neighbour.
Sotheby's auction house described the meteorite, a reddish brown rock, as "unbelievably rare".
Wind and other weather data, as well as any information gathered by the UK Fireball Alliance, is used to help work out where meteorites land.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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