pallasite
IPA: pˈæɫʌsaɪt
noun
- (geology) A stony-iron meteorite embedded with glassy crystals of olivine.
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Examples of "pallasite" in Sentences
- Brahin is a meteorite pallasite found in 1807.
- A pallasite is a type of stony iron meteorite.
- Imilac is classified as a stony iron pallasite.
- A 'pallasite' is a type of stony iron meteorite.
- It was also the first pallasite meteorite from Italy.
- Krasnojarsk was the first pallasite meteorite ever found.
- The Springwater pallasite is about 4.5 billion years old.
- Seymchan is considered a stable and rust resistant pallasite.
- Initial observations indicate that it's not a pallasite or" "
- This pallasite consists of approximately equal parts of olivine and metal.
- The Brenham fall has the rarest of meteorites, a stony-iron mix called a pallasite.
- The pallasite fragments of the Brenham meteorite were dug out of the ground and often have significant rust, he noted.
- Railway ties were laid callously across the fine pallasite stones; the line cleaved the former nation of Arbath like a whip-mark.
- Springwater, Sask.: a 53-kg piece of a pallasite meteorite originally discovered in 1931 was found when a team returned to the fall site.
- 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.
- Unfortunately, I don't have a meteorite to give away, as I use what few I have for hands-on outreach and education purposes, and my pallasite is just too darn pretty to give away, but I do have a small yin of chaos in my big yang of order.
- 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.