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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

Scientists found evidence of ancient magnetic fields preserved in some of the oldest meteorite material ever identified.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 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

Wearing disposable gloves, he used aluminum foil to collect the meteorite fragments and placed them in glass jars.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026

“My meteorite bag’s still packed,” he says, and I nod like this explains something.

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

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

Chondrules are small rocky spheres found inside chondrites, which are among the most primitive meteorites preserved in geological collections.

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

That difference was difficult to explain because the Sun and those meteorites formed from the same cloud of gas and dust about 4.6 billion years ago.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026

Each day, millions of meteorites fall against the outer limits of the membrane and are burned to nothing by the friction.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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