Sentence examples for bits of meteorite from inspiring English sources

Mixed in with the smelt were bits of meteorite, the stuff of thunderbolts.

Despite the dense flora surrounding us, the wide path ahead resembled the surface of the moon and was strewn with what looked like bits of meteorite.

lands his plane and finds bits of meteorite in a place empty of people and powerfully illustrates how we are adrift on this planet in space, that we are all in it together.

"I personally count on citizens who call me up to say they have got bits of meteorite," said Hichem Ben Yahyoui, the association's treasurer, waving a page of complicated formulae that explain the supersonic path of a meteorite, which landed between Tunisia and Algeria last September.

Although they accept that the fragments came from outer space, they wonder if the fresh-looking, unaltered bits of meteorite could have survived unaltered for 251 million years.

And more than 300 vendors will hawk all sorts of mineral-related wares: piles of colorful gems and minerals, bits of meteorites, African beads, fossilized dinosaur dung (called coprolite), gold nuggets.

A few cars in the United States have been damaged and there was a case of a cow being killed in Valera, Venezuela in 1972 – the unfortunate animal was duly eaten and bits of the meteorite were later sold to collectors.

In the 21 November issue of Science, petrologist and geochemist Asish Basu of the University of Rochester, New York, and four colleagues offer one such new marker: Tiny bits of a meteorite they found in Antarctica.

Pizzarello was excited to analyze bits of the meteorite in her lab, but her first looks at the space rock didn't find anything particularly interesting.

Geochemists have dissolved bits of two meteorites to extract mineral grains spawned by stars before our solar system was born.

The ads are for chunks of meteorites, bits of asteroids that have fallen from the sky and are as prized by scientists as they are by collectors.