- A
meteorite is a rock that
originated in
outer space and has
fallen to the
surface of a
planet or moon. When the
original object enters the atmosphere...
- Look up
meteoritics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Meteoritics is the
science that
deals with meteors,
meteorites, and meteoroids. It is
closely connected...
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Meteorite,
officially named Willamette and
originally known as
Tomanowos by the
Clackamas Chinook Native American tribe, is an iron-nickel
meteorite found...
- The
Sylacauga meteorite fell on
November 30, 1954, at 12:46
local time (18:46 UT) in Oak Grove, Alabama, near Sylacauga, in the
United States. It is also...
- The Hoba (/ˈhoʊbə/ HOH-bə)
meteorite is
named after the farm Hoba West,
where it lies, not far from Grootfontein, in the
Otjozondjupa Region of Namibia...
- as a
meteorite. As of September 2020[update], 277
meteorites had been
classified as Martian, less than half a
percent of the 72,000
meteorites that have...
- The Cape York
meteorite, also
known as the
Innaanganeq meteorite, is one of the
largest known iron
meteorites,
classified as a
medium octahedrite in chemical...
- Iron
meteorites, also
called siderites or
ferrous meteorites, are a type of
meteorite that
consist overwhelmingly of an iron–nickel
alloy known as meteoric...
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several earlier names, and
fragments of the
meteorite are
officially called the
Canyon Diablo Meteorite,
after the
adjacent Canyon Diablo.
Meteor Crater...
- In
meteoritics, a
meteorite classification system attempts to
group similar meteorites and
allows scientists to
communicate with a
standardized terminology...
