aerolite
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Last week Harvey Harlow Nininger, Colorado meteorite expert, revealed discovery of a 700-lb. aerolite by a farmer near Hugoton, Kans.
From Time Magazine Archive
Buried a yard deep in the ground, it was the most massive aerolite ever turned up in that State.*
From Time Magazine Archive
Some days elapsed without any object, aerolite or otherwise, being described, and without any trumpet notes being heard in the atmosphere.
From Robur the Conqueror by Jules Verne
If it come to an aerolite or mass of metallic rock, or even a cloudlet of gas, standing still in space, its contact with our air evolves 600,000° of heat.
From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Henry White Warren
Was it an aerolite shooting obliquely through the atmosphere?
From Robur the Conqueror by Jules Verne
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