If it had been stony in composition, as most asteroids are, it would have shattered in flight and released all of its energy in a phenomenal explosion.
Tasting her winery's dry furmint-harslevelu cuvée, I thought I got a sense of the difference: while Bott Pince's 100 percent furmint wine had been stony and sharp, the blend brought out more cantaloupe and sweet melon with less acidity, finishing with just a touch of linden blossom.
And then there's Stony Hill, which has been saying all along that there's a better way.
A distinctive variant of the typical Shandong brown soil is the recalcified soil (soil that has been made hard or stony by the deposit of calcium salts) found on the northern perimeter of the central hill mass.
A man whose identity has been reduced to a stony litany of dates and numbers, punctuated by question marks.
These days you drive up to the site, and the stony ground has been cleared sufficiently for the occasional tourist bus to park.
He writes, "And so, in order to return sensation to our limbs, in order to make us feel objects, to make a stone feel stony, man has been given the tool of art.
A handsome stone farmhouse, perched on a rise over cactus groves and stony meadows, has been turned into a dining room that had not yet opened when I visited in March; it seats 70 people, and serves organic dishes with ingredients produced almost exclusively on Libera Terra farmland.
A region of poor and stony soils, Småland has been cultivated through the ages with some difficulty, as evidenced by the enormous mounds of stone cleared from the land.
The shop's staff aren't concerned about saying the owner, Hubert George of the Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation, has been "providing this service to the community" for decades.
