Synonyms for meteorites
me·te·orites

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   meteors, showers

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1. Philipp Heck:

   This meteorite is special because it fell onto a frozen lake and was recovered quickly. It was very pristine. We could see the minerals weren't much altered and later found that it contained a rich inventory of extraterrestrial organic compounds, these kinds of organic compounds were likely delivered to the early Earth by meteorites and might have contributed to the ingredients of life.

2. Yasuhiro Oba:

   It is no doubt that biologically important molecules such as amino acids and nucleobase( s) in asteroids/meteorites have been provided to the Earth, in particular, we expect they might play a role for prebiotic evolution on the early Earth.

3. Peter Jenniskens:

   Combining the observations of the small asteroid in space with information gleaned from the meteorites shows it likely came from Vesta, second largest asteroid in our Solar System and target of NASA's DAWN mission, billions of years ago, two giant impacts on Vesta created a family of larger, more dangerous asteroids. The newly recovered meteorites gave us a clue on when those impacts might have happened.

4. Maria Valdes:

   A lot of rocks can seem like they’re meteorites, but they’re not, we call these meteor-wrongs.

5. Epifanio Vaccaro:

   Ive been looking at the matrix of primitive meteorites, the material that holds the structure together, the meteorite in question dates to roughly 4.6 billion years ago, when the Sun was born and our Solar System formed. The matrix of these meteorites is therefore thought to be the starting material from which all the planets formed.