Meaning of meteoriticist | Babel Free

Definitions

A scientist involved in meteoritics.

Examples

“The following is a not-too-imaginary conversation between a meteoriticist and an important on-the-spot witness to a fireball that went soaring over his alfalfa patch.”

“In spite of this reservation, most meteoriticists now accept⟳ extinct aluminum-26 as the most likely source of heat for the meteorite parent bodies: it was abundant when the solar system formed, and it decayed fast enough to account for the intense but brief thermal histories of most meteorites.”

“Most of the meteoriticists who "discover⟳" new meteorites depend⟳ on someone from the general public to bring⟳ in a strange rock they have⟳ encountered.”

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