ALL meanings of meteorite
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M m - noun meteorite A meteor that survives its passage through the earth’s atmosphere such that part of it strikes the ground . More than 90 percent of meteorites are of rock, while the remainder consist wholly or partly of iron and nickel. 1
- noun meteorite fallen meteor 1
- noun meteorite a mass of stone or metal that has reached the earth from outer space; a fallen meteoroid. 1
- noun meteorite a meteoroid. 1
- countable noun meteorite A meteorite is a large piece of rock or metal from space that has landed on Earth. 0
- noun meteorite a rocklike object consisting of the remains of a meteoroid that has fallen on earth. It may be stony (chondrite), iron, or stony iron (pallasite) 0
- noun meteorite that part of a relatively large meteoroid that survives passage through the atmosphere and falls to the surface of a planet or moon as a mass of metal or stone 0