meteorite

How To Use meteorite In A Sentence

• The sight of the fireball was followed by a sonic boom as the meteorite exploded into thousands of pieces over Barwell near Leicester. Times, Sunday Times
• My research has largely been in the chemistry of how the particular components of chondrites, very primitive meteorites, actually formed in the solar nebula.
• Alternatively, the soot might have come from the vaporization of oil deposits at the site of the meteorite impact.
• Sornette's discussion of the science of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, tornadoes and meteorite impacts is riveting.
• Other sources of high iridium concentrations are extraterrestrial objects, such as meteorites or comets.
• Kevlar also was used on the Galileo probe to Jupiter, which included a parachute made of Kevlar, and at the International Space Station, where a blanket made of Kevlar was used to wrap its inner walls to protect from micrometeorites.
• Thus, meteorites represent a fossil record of the early conditions of the solar nebula.
• Another earthquake spot is on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, most interestingly just in a large meteorite impact structure ( "astrobleme") called Charlevoix. Signs of the Times
• But Western culture was very reluctant to authenticate reports of meteorite falls.
• Much stronger are the type 2 meteors, with the physical strength of carbonaceous chondrite meteorites, which they also resemble chemically.