Sentence examples for tiny meteorite from inspiring English sources

"It's a tiny meteorite with big implications," she said in an interview.

By monitoring this fresh crater, researchers will be able to watch the process of space weathering the erosive effect of radiation and tiny meteorite strikes in action.

Among the hypotheses is that a tiny meteorite hit the Columbia's wing on descent, knocking out sensors and leaving the craft unable to withstand the heat of re-entry, when temperatures reach 2,000 degrees.

The tiny meteorites, less than a millimeter across, make up the most precisely dated collection of the debris that drifts through the inner solar system, researchers report in tomorrow's issue of Nature.

A study of teeny-tiny meteorite fragments revealed that two essential components of life on Earth as we know it, could have migrated to our planet on space dust.

But a much larger source may be a persistent pummeling by tiny carbon-rich meteorites, which stem from cometary dust among other sources and strike Mercury (shown in 2008 by a probe orbiting the planet) about 50 times more often than they do the moon, the researchers estimate today in Nature Geoscience.

Demand from international collectors is such that a tiny fragment of the meteorite could fetch hundreds of dollars.

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.

Scientists analyzed tiny crystals in the Martian meteorite NWA 5298, the fifth largest of all the known Martian meteorites.

A meteorite containing a tiny gelatinous creature crashes near a small town.

Their results showed that when exposed to a wide range of pressures, the hydrated meteorite fractured into tiny particles that were then explosively dispersed when the pressure was released.