iron meteorite
Britishnoun
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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
There is a Gibeon iron meteorite that fell to earth in Namibia.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 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
When she walked into the main entrance, she saw nothing but the Bendegó, a colossal 5,360-kilogram iron meteorite discovered in 1784 in northeast Brazil.
From Nature ● Jul. 15, 2019
I saw the gray side of the rough iron meteorite itself, half-buried in the sand at the bottom of the pit.
From Astounding Stories, March, 1931 by Various
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