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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

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

Since its discovery, the meteorite has been studied extensively because of its unusually primitive composition.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 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

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

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

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 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

Previous measurements suggested that the Sun contained significantly less silver than chemically primitive meteorites.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 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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