different between meteorites vs meteoritics
meteorites
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Noun
meteorites
- plural of meteorite
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meteoritics
English
Etymology
meteorite +? -ics.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi?t?????t?ks/
Noun
meteoritics (uncountable)
- (astronomy, mineralogy, geochemistry, cosmochemistry) The science that deals with meteors, meteorites, and meteoroids.
- 1999, Harry Y. McSween, Jr., Meteorites and Their Parent Planets, 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press, page 7,
- From the beginning of the nineteenth century forward, meteoritics progressed steadily to an exacting and highly interdisciplinary field.
- 2000, Monica M. Grady, Catalogue of Meteorites, 5th Edition, Cambridge University Press, page 1,
- Following the precedents set in previous editions of the Catalogue of Meteorites, it is not the intention of this Introduction to discuss the science of meteoritics, but simply to provide a summary of the nomenclature and classification of meteorites and the system of entries adopted.
- 2004, John S. Lewis, Physics and Chemistry of the Solar System, 2nd Edition, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 350,
- Meteoritics, the laboratory study of meteorites, was regarded as our best window on events at the time of the origin of the planets even before their age could be measured. […] Recently, discoveries in both meteoritics and asteroid research have brought forward several interesting connections with comets, and even the Voyager revelation of the nature of ice-rich satellites has influenced our understanding of meteorite origins.
- 1999, Harry Y. McSween, Jr., Meteorites and Their Parent Planets, 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press, page 7,
Derived terms
- meteoriticist
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- Glossary of meteoritics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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