Synonyms for meteorite
ˈmi ti əˌraɪtme·te·orite

Princeton's WordNet

1. meteoritenoun

   stony or metallic object that is the remains of a meteoroid that has reached the earth's surface

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1. • Meteoroid

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1. List of paraphrases for "meteorite":

   meteor, fragment

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1. Stuart Mills:

   This meteorite had an abundance of carbon in it. And as it slowly cooled down, the iron and carbon came together and formed this mineral.

2. Jaelyn Eberle:

   Folks have hypothesized that being small and having the ability to potentially hide underground when a big meteorite comes along would have preadapted these guys to survival.

3. Philipp Heck:

   But we also keep looking out for new meteorite falls, every meteorite that falls to Earth is worth studying, as it may provide a unique perspective onto the solar system and may shed new light on its history and our origins.

4. Scott Sandford:

   This sort of spectral matching is a way to identify an unknown, good spectral matches suggest possible identifications, while bad matches eliminate them. Most of the spectra are dominated by minerals that are consistent with the identification of this meteorite as a carbonaceous chondrite.

5. Tom Zega:

   These are the ashes of different kinds of stars that have faded or are on their way to fading out of the universe, moreover, because we find them preserved inside of meteorites and because we can age date meteorites using radioisotopes, we know they must be older than the meteorite itself.