meteorites
Objects from outside the Earth that enter the Earth's field of gravitation and fall to the Earth's surface. Meteors, on the other hand, are objects from space that burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.
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To solve the problem, we need to study a lot more comets and meteorites.
Museums of natural history display the biggest meteorites, tallest dinosaurs, and millipedes with the most legs.
A majority of these meteorites comes from collisions in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
New York City Stages Largest Meteorite Auction Ever | Lizzie Crocker | October 10, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTSo he pocketed sculptural meteorites and sold the less visually arresting ones to museums and other private collectors.
New York City Stages Largest Meteorite Auction Ever | Lizzie Crocker | October 10, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTOnly a few of these shooting stars or meteorites will be seen in looking at any one point in the heavens.
The Leonid system of meteorites did not always move in a closed orbit round our sun.
The Astronomy of the Bible | E. Walter MaunderOne of the meteorites slowly crumbled on top, the dust of disintegration hovering in a compact mass about the body.
Astounding Stories, April, 1931 | VariousWe may as well suppose its materials to have been a swarm of meteorites as to suppose a chaotic fire-mist.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 | VariousBut this hypothesis of innumerable collisions between meteorites travelling in the same orbits does not appear very plausible.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 | Various
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