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meteorite

[mee-tee-uh-rahyt] / ˈmi ti əˌraɪt /


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The researchers focused especially on carbonaceous chondrites, a type of meteorite rich in carbon.

From Science Daily • May 26, 2026

Burbery also compares Satan to the Hoba meteorite, a 60-ton space rock that survived impact largely intact.

From Science Daily • May 11, 2026

It all started when a geologist friend told her she could buy a small piece of a lunar meteorite called Bechar 003, so she did.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

He said he believed the meteorite was tracked from near Cardiff across to Hull and Grimsby before potentially landing in the North Sea.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

The next case housed a Canyon Diablo meteorite, one of many fragments of the asteroid that created the Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas




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