pallasite
Definitions
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- noun A stony-iron meteorite embedded with glassy crystals of olivine.
Examples
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Railway ties were laid callously across the fine pallasite stones; the line cleaved the former nation of Arbath like a whip-mark.
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The Springwater pallasite is about 4.5 billion years old.
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It's a profound feeling holding a piece of pallasite and trying to comprehend the cosmic forces that would have shaped such a marvelous thing.
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The Brenham fall has the rarest of meteorites, a stony-iron mix called a pallasite.
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On the way out, I ogled the extremely rare 400-pound pallasite meteorite from the Brenham meteorite field in Kansas (not a good place to put a car lot, by the way), and the hovering replica of NASA's original Manned Maneuvering Unit, which apparently allows astronauts to fly without a tether to the Space Shuttle.
Note
The word 'pallasite' comes from the name of Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811) a naturalist who discovered a meteorite of this type in 1772.
