meteorite
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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
The "M" refers to the Mighei meteorite, which fell in Ukraine in 1889.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
Every other witnessed CM fall has involved CM2 material, and no CM1 meteorite fall has ever been observed.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
"The Hillsborough meteorite contained 1.8% by weight of carbon and 0.07% of nitrogen, and had carbon and nitrogen isotopes typical for CM-type meteorites."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
On 13 September 1768 a large meteorite, weighing seven and a half pounds, fell at Lucé, Pays de la Loire.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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
The database could also improve scientists' ability to interpret the history recorded inside meteorites and asteroid fragments.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
Carbonaceous chondrites are primitive, carbon-rich meteorites that contain some of the oldest material formed in the solar system.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
Previous computer simulations and analyses of meteorites found on Earth have shown that organic material can survive both ejection from a planet and the trip through interplanetary space.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
Trucks carry off skeletons and meteorites and octopi in jars and herbarium sheets and Egyptian gold and South African ivory and Permian fossils.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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