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
But already I had shot away on the steepest glide that I dared to attempt, my engine still full on, the flying propeller and the force of gravity shooting me downwards like an aerolite.
From Tales of Terror and Mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This circumstance will appear less extraordinary, when I mention that in broad daylight, in 1788, the interior of the houses in the town of Popayan was brightly illumined by an aerolite of immense magnitude.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Thomasina Ross
Up and up it went as if it had resolved to become an aerolite and visit the moon!
From The Hot Swamp by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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