iron meteorite
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Desch also argued that "all evidence points to this being an iron meteorite, part of a population of natural objects ejected by stellar systems."
From Salon • Aug. 31, 2022
And the region is also famed as the home of fragments from a massive iron meteorite that weigh in total some 58 tons.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 8, 2022
That not a single sub-surface iron meteorite was detected on this trip should not be surprising.
From BBC • Jan. 8, 2020
Heumann, K. G., Neubauer, J. & Reifenhäuser, W. Iodine overabundances measured in the surface layers of an Antarctic stony and iron meteorite.
From Nature • Nov. 28, 2017
Extended like a gigantic and deformed missile lay an iron meteorite before us, the same thing as the Siderites that appear in your Museums on Earth.
From The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars by Gratacap, L. P.
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