Synonyms for meteorite
ˈmi ti əˌraɪtme·te·orite

Princeton's WordNet

1. meteoritenoun

   stony or metallic object that is the remains of a meteoroid that has reached the earth's surface

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1. • Meteoroid

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1. Jennika Greer:

   This meteorite shows a high diversity of organics, in that if somebody was interested in studying organics, this is not normally the type of meteorite that they would ask to look at, but because there was so much excitement surrounding it, everybody wanted to apply their own technique to it, so we have an unusually comprehensive set of data for a single meteorite.

2. Scott Sandford:

   This sort of spectral matching is a way to identify an unknown, good spectral matches suggest possible identifications, while bad matches eliminate them. Most of the spectra are dominated by minerals that are consistent with the identification of this meteorite as a carbonaceous chondrite.

3. Stuart Mills:

   This meteorite had an abundance of carbon in it. And as it slowly cooled down, the iron and carbon came together and formed this mineral.

4. Bonnie MacLachlan:

   The Greeks, and Babylonians before them, saw the upper sky as the home of the gods when meteors fell to Earth, instead of reasoning that there might be rocks up there, they felt that divinity must reside in the fallen meteorite and worshipped it.

5. Caroline Smith:

   Every year, we provide hundreds of meteorite specimens to scientists all over the world to for study, this is a first for us: sending one of our samples back home for the benefit of science.