stony meteorite
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
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 Fort, Charles
This body differs very much from the more ordinary kind of stony meteorite.
From The Story of the Heavens by Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir
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