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meteorite

[mee-tee-uh-rahyt] / ˈmi ti əˌraɪt /


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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

Using small pieces of the original meteorite, the team separated tiny mineral grains and identified several CAIs containing naturally magnetic minerals, including iron.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

Another major group of primitive carbonaceous chondrites is known as CI, with the "I" referring to the Ivuna meteorite that fell in Tanzania in 1938.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026

Only one meteorite was recovered, largely because it made its presence impossible to miss by striking a house.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026

Hours later, however, we haven’t found one meteorite, not one piece of sky litter, but I so don’t care.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

"Other meteorites went through many different processes over this 4.5 billion year history," Weiss says.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 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

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 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

The entire underside of the dome looked like space as seen from the Hubble telescope: A dusty spiral nebula billowed up, a galaxy of stars twinkled, and meteorites whizzed across the ceiling.

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein




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