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I glanced at a passing field, flat and defenseless, and thought for a moment about meteorites and space capsules, things glowing in the atmosphere, then making holes in the ground.† (source) Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres, 1991

Trucks carry off skeletons and meteorites and octopi in jars and herbarium sheets and Egyptian gold and South African ivory and Permian fossils.† (source)

They strike with the force of a meteorite, If people act up out on the Raft, they will make the problem go away.† (source) Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992

I've seen him get like this before, when he's writing a new song or is trying to convince me to do something I won't want to do—like go camping with him—and nothing, not a meteorite crashing into the planet, not even a girlfriend in the ICU, can dissuade him.† (source) Gayle Forman, If I Stay, 2009

Equally mind-boggling were the building's natural treasures—plesiosaur skeletons, a priceless meteorite collection, a giant squid, even a collection of elephant skulls brought back from an African safari by Teddy Roosevelt.† (source) Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, 2009

He reached this conclusion after studying a meteorite.† (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

I felt out of control, a meteorite tumbling through space, tugged by gravity toward certain doom.† (source) Ellen Hopkins, Crank, 2004

Perhaps, like them, I was a throwback, a small distant meteorite that died several hundred years ago and now lived only by virtue of the light that speeds through space at too great a pace to realize that its source has become a piece of lead ….† (source) Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, 1952

And the business of the meteorite.† (source)

Meteorites.† (source)

Did not agree to go as meteorite.† (source)

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In a poem called "Exposure" I wrote then: If I could come on meteorite!† (source) Seamus Heaney, Crediting Poetry, 1995

Tom said softly, "You think it's a meteorite, don't you?"† (source) John Steinbeck, East of Eden, 1952

Forged of iron from a meteorite in the desert of Canaan.† (source) Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, 2009

He wondered what Nagy would say, or Karp, if they knew about the meteorite.† (source)

Karp, upon breaking open his meteorites, was able to isolate bacteria.† (source)

The big Catling gun on the deck of the Enterprise opens up again and fires another meteorite of depleted uranium slugs into the side of an unoccupied barge about twenty feet from Hiro.† (source) Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992

The guide shows them agate from Brazil and violet amethysts and a meteorite on a pedestal that he claims is as ancient as the solar system itself.† (source)

"Meteorite," Hiro says.† (source) Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992

Known as the Akedah knife, it had been crafted over three thousand years ago from an iron meteorite that had fallen to earth.† (source) Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, 2009

Three years ago, her brother had walked Katherine down this corridor, introducing her to the SMSC by proudly showing off some of the building's more unusual items—the Mars meteorite ALH-84001, the handwritten pictographic diary of Sitting Bull, a collection of wax-sealed Ball jars containing original specimens collected by Charles Darwin.† (source) Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, 2009

Leavitt went over the reports and the papers and found no reason to reject the meteorite studies out of hand; many of the experiments were careful, well-reasoned, and compelling.† (source)

He announced that he had taken great pains to avoid contamination: each meteorite he examined had been washed in twelve solutions, including peroxide, iodine, hypertonic saline, and dilute acids.† (source)

The arguments and counter-arguments were complex, but boiled down to a simple substrate: whenever a worker would announce that he had found a fossil, or a proteinaceous hydrocarbon, or other indication of life within a meteorite, the critics would claim sloppy lab technique and contamination with earth-origin matter and organisms.† (source)

He became discouraged and set his work with meteorites aside; the organisms were later destroyed in an accidental laboratory explosion on the night of June 27, 1963.† (source)

Scientists in the 1960's were not willing to entertain notions of life existing in meteorites; all evidence presented was discounted, dismissed, and ignored.† (source)

Then, at the suggestion of colleagues at the Ann Arbor observatory, Karp began to investigate meteorites with the intent of determining whether they harbored life, or showed evidence of having done so in the past.† (source)

A meteorite.† (source) John Steinbeck, East of Eden, 1952

"But it's something more than a meteorite.† (source)

"Stones don't fall from the sky," Conseil said, "or else they deserve to be called meteorites."† (source)

His idea was that meteorites might be falling in a heavy shower upon the planet, or that a huge volcanic explosion was in progress.† (source)

Many people in Berkshire, Surrey, and Middlesex must have seen the fall of it, and, at most, have thought that another meteorite had descended.† (source)

Then suddenly he noticed with a start that some of the grey clinker, the ashy incrustation that covered the meteorite, was falling off the circular edge of the end.† (source)

But very early in the morning poor Ogilvy, who had seen the shooting star and who was persuaded that a meteorite lay somewhere on the common between Horsell, Ottershaw, and Woking, rose early with the idea of finding it.† (source)

Fallen meteorite!† (source)

Denning, our greatest authority on meteorites, stated that the height of its first appearance was about ninety or one hundred miles.† (source)

He approached the mass, surprised at the size and more so at the shape, since most meteorites are rounded more or less completely.† (source)

Then he set out a meteorite, a missile Eetion in power used to hurl— before Akhilleus brought him down and took this fused iron with plunder in his ships.† (source) Homer, The Iliad, -850 B.C.

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