meteorite
Other forms: meteorites
A meteorite is a rock that falls to earth after a brilliant meteor has passed through the earth's atmosphere.
If you've ever seen a shooting star at night, you can call what you're watching zip brightly across the sky a meteor. If that same meteor makes it through the atmosphere of the earth, its fire burns out and it becomes a meteorite, or a random piece of space debris that may have originally come from an asteroid or comet. The Greek root for both meteor and meteorite is ta meteora, "things in heaven above."
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any piece of a solid space object that entered Earth's atmosphere and landed on Earth's surfacetypes:aerolitea stony meteorite consisting of silicate mineralsmicrometeor, micrometeorite, micrometeoroida meteorite or meteoroid so small that it drifts down to earth without becoming intensely heated in the atmospherepallasitea meteorite composed principally of olivine and metallic ironsideritea meteorite consisting principally of nickel and iron
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