Meteorite (disambiguation)

Meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object that originates in outer space and survives its passage through the atmosphere to impact with the surface of a planet or moon.

Meteorite may also refer to:

  • Meteorite Hills, a group of hills, forming the western portion of the Darwin Mountains in Antarctica
  • Meteorite Island, an island in Baffin Bay, in the Qaasuitsup municipality, off NW Greenland
  • HMS Meteorite, an experimental U-boat developed in Germany, scuttled at the end of World War II, subsequently raised and commissioned into the Royal Navy
  • Meteorites (wasp), a genus of wasps in the tribe Euphorini

Music

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See also

  • Meteor (disambiguation)
  • Meteoritics, science that deals with meteorites and other extraterrestrial materials that further our understanding of the origin and history of the Solar System
  • Meteorite classification, grouping all meteorite specimens that share a common origin on a single, identifiable parent body
  • Meteorite falls, also called observed falls, meteorites collected after their fall from space was observed by people or automated devices
  • Meteorite finds, those meteorites that were found by people, but whose fall was not observed
  • Meteorite weathering, the terrestrial alteration of a meteorite
  • Meteorite Men, a documentary reality television series featuring two meteorite hunters
  • Rolls-Royce Meteorite, also known as the Rover Meteorite, a V8 petrol or diesel engine derived from the Rolls-Royce Meteor
  • Golden Meteorite Press, an independent Canadian publishing company of fiction, non-fiction, and children’s literature
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