noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
stony
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She had analysed four of the specimens and found that each belonged to a completely different class of stony meteorite !
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Most stony meteorites range from about 1, 500 atmospheres down to about 100 atmospheres in crushing strength.
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Aeroliths, or stony meteorites , are composed chiefly of silicates.
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Hard stony meteorites span the entire spectrum of strengths between these extremes, and they will be selected accordingly.
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In addition, new data strengthen the idea that a group of nine unusual stony meteorites may have come from Mars.
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Impactite glasses and a small piece of a stony meteorite were found in the largest craters.
■ NOUN
fall
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It is startling but true that no meteorite fall has ever been associated with a meteor shower.
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Pliny also asserted that the mathematician and astronomer Anaxagoras of Clazomenae had predicted the Aegospotami meteorite fall .
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Did he in fact predict a meteorite fall ?
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A spectacular, widely observed meteorite fall in Newfoundland on October 19, 1936, set a fishing boat afire.
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What should we conclude about the hazard from meteorite falls ?
■ VERB
find
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Some of the supernova debris has recently been found in meteorites .
know
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This is the source of the fragments that we know as iron meteorites .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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About 1 percent of all recovered meteorites are the very peculiar carbonaceous chondrite stones.
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But other fireballs and meteorites were to come to the attention of geologists and chemists.
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Could the impact of the meteorite with the dome have deflected its path toward the horizontal?
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Iron meteorites, the strongest natural projectiles, have crushing strengths of about 3, 500 atmospheres.
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It is possible that we have traces of interstellar dust in meteorites.
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The relative abundances of such volatiles in meteorites does not match those of the three planets.
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The surfaces of these planets were very hot and continually battered by meteorites, which prevented much cooling taking place.
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This is remarkably young in comparison with the 4.5 x 109 year age of other meteorites.