- 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...
- 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...
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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...
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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...
- Iron
meteorites, also
called siderites or
ferrous meteorites, are a type of
meteorite that
consist overwhelmingly of an iron–nickel
alloy known as meteoric...
- 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...
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claimed to have been
struck by "
meteorites" but no
verifiable meteorites have resulted. A
small number of
meteorite falls have been
observed with automated...
- The
Chelyabinsk meteorite (Russian: Челябинский метеорит,
Chelyabinskii meteorit) is the
fragmented remains of the
large Chelyabinsk meteor of 15 February...
- This is a
glossary of
terms used in
meteoritics, the
science of
meteorites. 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
References 2 Pallas...
