Meteorite
noun
A piece of rock or metal from space that has landed on Earth.
The scientist found a meteorite in the desert.
Often appears as...
- meteorite impact
- meteorite discovery
noun
A piece of rock or metal from space that has landed on Earth.
The scientist found a meteorite in the desert.
Often appears as...
- meteorite impact
- meteorite discovery
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Pro Tip 1/3Not Meteor
Distinguish 'meteorite' from 'meteor': meteorites have hit Earth's surface, while meteors burn up in the atmosphere.
I saw a bright meteor in the sky, but the meteorite they found was already on the ground.
Pro Tip 2/3Scientific Interest
Meteorites are scientifically valuable for studying the universe; they are older than any rock on Earth.
The museum displays the meteorite to teach about the solar system's history.
Pro Tip 3/3Rare Finds
Meteorites are rare, so finding one is noteworthy and often newsworthy.
The news reported the rare find of a large meteorite in a local farmer's field.
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Susan Sarandon Holds...
that the very same star that created this iron created the iron that's in this as well as the iron in your blood see I find that really cool so you have a kinship what was the cosmos on its deepest level so meteorites a reminder first that earth moves in a shooting gallery that's my first thought when I
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Touching a Meteor PIPE...
flowerbed of your prep school many moons ago I have a meteorite that you can touch but you're not but you only I'm not going to hand it to you because I don't know what you gonna do with it I'll be very careful about they're very respectful this is four and a half
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Joel Levine: Why we need...
is the region of the ancient ocean basin. There aren't many craters. And that's because the water protected the basin from being impacted by asteroids and meteorites. But look in the southern hemisphere. In the southern hemisphere there are impact craters,
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Meteor Showers 101 PIPE...
cameras around the world have captured meteors falling from the sky and although some eventually hit most of them disintegrate or burn off the remaining pieces fall into the ocean when they survive the fall and hit land we call them meteorites scientists
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Could comets be the...
In some of the compounds that scientists found, first in the rubble left by a meteorite that disintegrated above northern Canada, and then in samples collected by a space craft from a passing comet's tail, were nothing less important than amino acids.
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Adventures of an...
protect the astronauts from that. And then third, but definitely not last, the Moon does not have any atmosphere, which means any meteorites coming into it will not get burned up, and they'll hit the surface. That's why the Moon is full of craters.
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Sand: the unseen...
outer space right we're traveling to a distant planet somewhere and we're on that somewhere far away moon and we're looking well imagine that bowling balls a micro meteorite hitting the surface of that planet right to protect our space
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Tsunamis 101 PIPE National...
volcanic eruptions landslides meteorites or the most common culprit earthquakes in the deep ocean a typical tsunami wave is barely noticeable and poses little threat but the waves can spread out thousands of miles rolling across the
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Why Earth may someday...
And this tenuous veneer around our planet is what allows life to flourish. It protects our planet from too many impacts, from meteorites and the like. And it's such an amazing phenomenon that the fact that it's disappearing
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We Could Kick-Start Life...
Stars collide, galaxies explode, meteorites crash, asteroids everywhere. A ton of action, but no life. Let me ask you this.
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Susan Sarandon Holds...
that the very same star that created this iron created the iron that's in this as well as the iron in your blood see I find that really cool so you have a kinship what was the cosmos on its deepest level so meteorites a reminder first that earth moves in a shooting gallery that's my first thought when I
Video examples
Touching a Meteor PIPE...
flowerbed of your prep school many moons ago I have a meteorite that you can touch but you're not but you only I'm not going to hand it to you because I don't know what you gonna do with it I'll be very careful about they're very respectful this is four and a half
Video examples
Joel Levine: Why we need...
is the region of the ancient ocean basin. There aren't many craters. And that's because the water protected the basin from being impacted by asteroids and meteorites. But look in the southern hemisphere. In the southern hemisphere there are impact craters,
Video examples
Meteor Showers 101 PIPE...
cameras around the world have captured meteors falling from the sky and although some eventually hit most of them disintegrate or burn off the remaining pieces fall into the ocean when they survive the fall and hit land we call them meteorites scientists
Video examples
Could comets be the...
In some of the compounds that scientists found, first in the rubble left by a meteorite that disintegrated above northern Canada, and then in samples collected by a space craft from a passing comet's tail, were nothing less important than amino acids.
Video examples
Adventures of an...
protect the astronauts from that. And then third, but definitely not last, the Moon does not have any atmosphere, which means any meteorites coming into it will not get burned up, and they'll hit the surface. That's why the Moon is full of craters.
Video examples
Sand: the unseen...
outer space right we're traveling to a distant planet somewhere and we're on that somewhere far away moon and we're looking well imagine that bowling balls a micro meteorite hitting the surface of that planet right to protect our space
Video examples
Tsunamis 101 PIPE National...
volcanic eruptions landslides meteorites or the most common culprit earthquakes in the deep ocean a typical tsunami wave is barely noticeable and poses little threat but the waves can spread out thousands of miles rolling across the
Video examples
Why Earth may someday...
And this tenuous veneer around our planet is what allows life to flourish. It protects our planet from too many impacts, from meteorites and the like. And it's such an amazing phenomenon that the fact that it's disappearing
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We Could Kick-Start Life...
Stars collide, galaxies explode, meteorites crash, asteroids everywhere. A ton of action, but no life. Let me ask you this.
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Seth Shostak
American Scientist
Despite tantalizing suggestions of fossilized microbes in meteorites, puzzling and possibly biogenic methane gas in the martian atmosphere, and a long-standing controversy over the Viking lander experiments of nearly 40 years ago, there's still no Exhibit A that points unequivocally to biology in our own back yard.
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Corey Taylor
American Musician
I do definitely believe that there is life away from this planet. I mean, we've kind of established that with the fact that we found bacteria on meteorites, and we've kind of used that to backtrack and show how this Earth, this planet, could have formed the ability to sustain life in the first place.
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Patricia Polacco
American Author
My appearances are almost theatrical performances. I bring items for the children to see, such as photographs and actual piece of meteorite, a family quilt, sometimes spectacles, sometimes clothing, so that they can understand what I write about is family stories based in fact.
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Peter Molyneux
English Designer
When a society is really successful like America, throughout history there's been this trend for those societies to be obsessed about end of the world scenarios. You know, about meteorites and plagues and destroying things. And you can see that in the American fiction.
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Cornelia Parker
English Artist
A lot of my work has been about stuff I've been frightened of: cliffs, explosions, meteorites, that kind of stuff. I would have been this trembling blob of fear if I hadn't got into making art, which is a good way of deferring it.
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Michio Kaku
American Physicist
It's very dangerous to put astronauts on a moon base where there's radiation, solar flares and micro meteorites. It'd be much better to put robots on the moon and have them mentally connected to astronauts on the Earth.
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Mary Roach
American Author
Meteorite hunting is not for wimps. The best places to look are also the coldest and windiest. You need very old ice, and you need wind, lots of it, strong and unrelenting. Antarctica fits the bill.
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Martin Rees
British Scientist
Indeed, evolutionists don't agree on how divergently our own biosphere could have developed if such contingencies as ice ages and meteorite impacts had happened differently.
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Doug Aitken
American Artist
I see life as a burning meteorite that you can climb all over, and feed off, as it is falling to earth.
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Seth Shostak
American Scientist
Despite tantalizing suggestions of fossilized microbes in meteorites, puzzling and possibly biogenic methane gas in the martian atmosphere, and a long-standing controversy over the Viking lander experiments of nearly 40 years ago, there's still no Exhibit A that points unequivocally to biology in our own back yard.
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Corey Taylor
American Musician
I do definitely believe that there is life away from this planet. I mean, we've kind of established that with the fact that we found bacteria on meteorites, and we've kind of used that to backtrack and show how this Earth, this planet, could have formed the ability to sustain life in the first place.
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Patricia Polacco
American Author
My appearances are almost theatrical performances. I bring items for the children to see, such as photographs and actual piece of meteorite, a family quilt, sometimes spectacles, sometimes clothing, so that they can understand what I write about is family stories based in fact.
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Peter Molyneux
English Designer
When a society is really successful like America, throughout history there's been this trend for those societies to be obsessed about end of the world scenarios. You know, about meteorites and plagues and destroying things. And you can see that in the American fiction.
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Cornelia Parker
English Artist
A lot of my work has been about stuff I've been frightened of: cliffs, explosions, meteorites, that kind of stuff. I would have been this trembling blob of fear if I hadn't got into making art, which is a good way of deferring it.
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Michio Kaku
American Physicist
It's very dangerous to put astronauts on a moon base where there's radiation, solar flares and micro meteorites. It'd be much better to put robots on the moon and have them mentally connected to astronauts on the Earth.
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Mary Roach
American Author
Meteorite hunting is not for wimps. The best places to look are also the coldest and windiest. You need very old ice, and you need wind, lots of it, strong and unrelenting. Antarctica fits the bill.
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Martin Rees
British Scientist
Indeed, evolutionists don't agree on how divergently our own biosphere could have developed if such contingencies as ice ages and meteorite impacts had happened differently.
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Doug Aitken
American Artist
I see life as a burning meteorite that you can climb all over, and feed off, as it is falling to earth.
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