meteorite
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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
Remarkably, the meteorite has retained much of its original mineral makeup despite surviving billions of years of solar system history.
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
Ahnighito is thirty-four tons of iron and is the largest meteorite on display in any museum.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
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We do already have some fragments of the Red Planet here on Earth in the form of Martian meteorites.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Martian meteorites are extremely rare, but like all space rocks that fall to our planet, they become contaminated as soon as they get here, mixing with the air, dust, soil and water.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
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
During its journey, the rover has encountered sulfur crystals, reflective meteorites, and many other unusual geologic features.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
Eighteenth-century English and French scientists rejected the ample testimony as to the reality of meteorites, as we reject stories of alien abduction.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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