stony meteorite
Americannoun
noun
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A rock discovered in a garden in Germany has been confirmed as the largest stony meteorite ever found in the country.
From Fox News ● Jul. 17, 2020
The rock, which is a chondrite, or stony meteorite, measures 11 inches by 9.8 inches by 7.9 inches.
From Fox News ● Jul. 17, 2020
“If you don’t have to have nickel in a stony meteorite, then you don’t have to have nickel in an iron meteorite.”
From The Verge ● Jun. 25, 2018
To distinguish a stony meteorite from terrestrial rock substances is not always easy, but there is usually little difficulty in pronouncing upon an iron meteorite.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Peck Todd
But the insult to orthodoxy was that they were not angular fragments such as might have been broken from a stony meteorite: that they were "water-worn pebbles."
From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
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