How to Use meteorite in a Sentence

meteorite

noun

• More than a few meteorites have reached us from the Moon and Mars.
  — Chris Impey, The Conversation, 24 Oct. 2023
• So in this case, the object that hit the house would be a meteorite.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 9 May 2023
• The rare meteorite is about the size of a cantaloupe but weighs a hefty 17 pounds (7.7 kilograms).
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 24 Jan. 2023
• So, the team began to look into ways to study the Mars meteorite more in-depth.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 12 May 2022
• The men in black delivered a meteorite that crashed in 1988 to the stage for Cyclops's mega clue.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 16 Mar. 2022
• The museum was able to buy this meteorite from Boudreaux in late 2020.
  — Mariah Rush, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2021
• The leader of a gang must help his group survive when aliens begin to fall from the sky from a meteorite fall.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 31 July 2023
• The main attraction is a crater where, millions of years ago, a meteorite touched down.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2023
• The group later shared a picture of a meteorite someone had found.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 4 May 2022
• More meteorites are found in Antarctica than in any other place in the world.
  — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2023
• This hints that the meteorite was likely a IAB type and originally had a mass of at least two tons.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 3 Aug. 2023
• Eliot and Tim from Blue Stinger were prepping a Christmas party when the meteorite hit.
  — Matt Gardner, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
• When a stop-motion alien shows up and steals the meteorite, the town is forced to quarantine and go a little cuckoo.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2023
• Did the Pharisee Saul witness a meteorite fall on the road to Damascus?
  — Steven Poole, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2022
• Researchers still need to confirm whether the object is a meteorite.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2023
• Every pit in the mirror from a meteorite strike causes stray light.
  — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 9 Jan. 2023
• In 1960, for instance, the Soviet Union presented him with a piece of the Sikhote-Alin meteorite.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2023
• Most of the iron on those larger bodies is in their core, not their crust, where meteorites originate.
  — Byzack Savitsky, science.org, 6 Apr. 2023
• And new minerals, never seen on Earth, were found in a meteorite.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2022
• What’s the name of the comprehensive worldwide list of meteorites?
  — Daniel Akst, WSJ, 22 July 2023
• Meteors that that have made their way to the Earth's surface are called meteorites and are small pieces of an asteroid.
  — Carlie Procell, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
• The finding adds more evidence that meteorites carried the building blocks of life to Earth.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023
• At first glimpse, Amboy Crater looks like the result of a meteorite smashing into the Mojave Desert earth.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2022
• Christie's has been running a meteorite sale every year since 2014.
  — CNN, 23 Feb. 2022
• But then a meteorite struck it, narrowly missing the dog.
  — CNN, 23 Feb. 2022
• When these space rocks survive the atmosphere and crash onto the planet, they are called meteorites.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
• In order to confirm that the boom-causing meteor was a part of Comet Swift-Tuttle, astronomers would have to test a meteorite from the event.
  — Anastasia Hufham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2022
• And what crashed in this remote spot, nearly five thousand years ago, was not an asteroid but a meteorite, the size of a crystal ball.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 June 2023
• The Winchcombe meteorite belongs to a rare class of space rocks known as carbonaceous chondrites.
  — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 25 June 2023
• This includes meteorites, lunar rocks and even some of the very oldest rocks on Earth, which have all been determined to be around — surprise!
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024