meteoriteme‧te‧o‧rite /ˈmiːtiəraɪt/ noun [countable] 
Examples
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
word sets- About 1 percent of all recovered meteorites are the very peculiar carbonaceous chondrite stones.
- But other fireballs and meteorites were to come to the attention of geologists and chemists.
- Could the impact of the meteorite with the dome have deflected its path toward the horizontal?
- Iron meteorites, the strongest natural projectiles, have crushing strengths of about 3, 500 atmospheres.
- It is possible that we have traces of interstellar dust in meteorites.
- The relative abundances of such volatiles in meteorites does not match those of the three planets.
- The surfaces of these planets were very hot and continually battered by meteorites, which prevented much cooling taking place.
- This is remarkably young in comparison with the 4.5 x 109 year age of other meteorites.
WORD SETS► Astronomy
Collocationsasteroid, nounastro-, prefixastronaut, nounastronomical, adjectiveastronomy, nounastrophysics, nounAU, aurora borealis, nounBig Bang, the, nounblack hole, nouncelestial, adjectivecomet, nounconstellation, nouncorona, nouncosmic, adjectivecosmic ray, nouncosmology, nouncosmonaut, noundead, adjectiveearth, nouneclipse, nouneclipse, verbecliptic, nounequinox, nounescape velocity, nounextraterrestrial, adjectivegalactic, adjectivegalaxy, noungeostationary orbit, nounHubble Space Telescope, the, infinity, nounintergalactic, adjectiveinterplanetary, adjectiveinterstellar, adjectiveJupiter, nounlaunch, verblaunch, nounlight year, nounLittle Bear, lunar, adjectivelunar month, nounmagnitude, nounMars, nounMercury, nounmeteor, nounmeteoric, adjectivemeteorite, nounMilky Way, the, month, nounmoon, nounmorning star, nounNASA, nounnebula, nounNeptune, nounnew moon, nounnova, nounobservatory, nounorbit, verborbit, nounorbiter, nounouter space, nounphase, nounplanet, nounplanetarium, nounplasma, nounPluto, nounquadrant, nounquarter, nounquasar, nounradio telescope, nounring, nounrocket, nounsatellite, nounSaturn, nounsea, nounshooting star, nounsolar, adjectivesolar system, nounspace, nounspace capsule, nounspacecraft, nounspace probe, nounspaceship, nounspace shuttle, nounspace station, nounstar, nounstargazer, nounsteady state theory, nounstellar, adjectivesun, nounsunspot, nounsupernova, nountelescope, nountelescopic, adjectiveterrestrial, adjectiveUranus, nounVenus, nounwane, verbwax, verbwhite dwarf, nounworld, nounzenith, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► stony
a piece of rock or metal from space that has landed on Earth· She had analysed four of the specimens and found that each belonged to a completely different class of stony meteorite!· Most stony meteorites range from about 1, 500 atmospheres down to about 100 atmospheres in crushing strength.· Aeroliths, or stony meteorites, are composed chiefly of silicates.· Hard stony meteorites span the entire spectrum of strengths between these extremes, and they will be selected accordingly.· In addition, new data strengthen the idea that a group of nine unusual stony meteorites may have come from Mars.· Impactite glasses and a small piece of a stony meteorite were found in the largest craters.
NOUN► fall· It is startling but true that no meteorite fall has ever been associated with a meteor shower.· Pliny also asserted that the mathematician and astronomer Anaxagoras of Clazomenae had predicted the Aegospotami meteorite fall.· Did he in fact predict a meteorite fall?· A spectacular, widely observed meteorite fall in Newfoundland on October 19, 1936, set a fishing boat afire.· What should we conclude about the hazard from meteorite falls?
VERB► find· Some of the supernova debris has recently been found in meteorites.
► know· This is the source of the fragments that we know as iron meteorites.