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• plural of meteorite.

meteorites

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1. Objects from outside the Earth that enter the Earth's field of gravitation and fall to the Earth's surface. Meteors, on the other hand, are objects from space that burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.

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Meteorites are bodies that are left over from the time when the planets formed, and therefore give us clues about the formation of the solar system.

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Grewal and his colleagues approached the problem by examining chemical clues preserved in iron meteorites from the outer Solar System.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

The diversity of those compounds provides further evidence that the Hillsborough material experienced more extensive alteration by water than most other CM-type meteorites.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026

Previous measurements suggested that the Sun contained significantly less silver than chemically primitive meteorites.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026

That difference was difficult to explain because the Sun and those meteorites formed from the same cloud of gas and dust about 4.6 billion years ago.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026

All around the room, vertical cases with shining spotlights display small sections of meteorites.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon