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[ adjective ] of or relating to or caused by meteorites
Synonyms Used in print (J. F. Vedder, "Micrometeorites", in Francis S. J...)It is also possible that some of the dust in the vicinity of the Earth originated from meteoritic impacts upon the moon . Another important source of evidence only recently receiving much attention is the analysis of atmospheric dust for a meteoritic component . Many workers believe that the response is proportional to the incident momentum of the particles , a relation deduced from laboratory results linearly extrapolated to meteoritic velocities . A measure of the total mass accretion of meteoritic material by the Earth is obtained from analyses of deep sea sediments and dust collected in remote regions ( Pettersson , 1960 ) . Most meteoritic material , by the time it reaches the Earth's_surface , has been reduced to dust or to spherules of ablated material in its passage through the atmosphere . |
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