- 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
Meteorite,
meteorite, or
météorite in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
meteorite is an
object that
originates in
outer space and
impacts the...
- 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 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...
-
estimated 15,000
tonnes of that
material entering the
atmosphere each year. A
meteorite is the
remains of a
meteoroid that has
survived the
ablation of its surface...
-
fragment of a
Martian meteorite that was
found in the
Allan Hills in
Antarctica on
December 27, 1984, by a team of
American meteorite hunters from the ANSMET...
-
several earlier names, and
fragments of the
meteorite are
officially called the
Canyon Diablo Meteorite,
after the
adjacent Canyon Diablo.
Meteor Crater...
- Iron
meteorites, also
called siderites or
ferrous meteorites, are a type of
meteorite that
consist overwhelmingly of an iron–nickel
alloy known as meteoric...
- A
meteorite fall, also
called an
observed fall, is a
meteorite collected after its fall from
outer space, that was also
observed by
people or automated...
- 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...
