aerolite
Americannoun
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Buried a yard deep in the ground, it was the most massive aerolite ever turned up in that State.*
From Time Magazine Archive
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
It is remarkable that a male emblem should be said to represent Venus, but the stone was an aerolite, like that which fell at Ephesus, and was said to represent Diana.
From Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other by Inman, Thomas
The next morning there was nothing better to do than to go with my companions to look after the aerolite.
From Adventures of a Young Naturalist by Gillmore, Parker
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 Warren, Henry White
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