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aerolite

American  
[air-uh-lahyt] / ˈɛər əˌlaɪt /
Also aerolith

noun

  1. a meteorite consisting mainly of stony matter.


aerolite British  
/ ˈɛərəˌlaɪt /

noun

  1. a stony meteorite consisting of silicate minerals

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of aerolite

First recorded in 1805–15; aero- + -lite

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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

And be to the world a portent Of eternal might and right, They chose for the steel a splinter From a fallen aerolite.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

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 Parker Gillmore

But later on it was discovered that the observers had been deceived in the body, and that what they had seen was an aerolite.

From Robur the Conqueror by Jules Verne

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