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Pseudostella :: Pseudostella (n.) Any starlike meteor or phenomenon.

Meteorometer :: Meteorometer (n.) An apparatus which transmits automatically to a central station atmospheric changes as marked by the anemometer, barometer, thermometer, etc..

Aerosiderite :: Aerosiderite (n.) A mass of meteoric iron.

Meteoroidal :: Meteoroidal (a.) Of or pertaining to a meteoroid or to meteoroids.

Chondritic :: Chondritic (a.) Granular; pertaining to, or having the granular structure characteristic of, the class of meteorites called chondrites..

Meteor :: Meteor (n.) Specif.: A transient luminous body or appearance seen in the atmosphere, or in a more elevated region..

Path :: Path (n.) A way, course, or track, in which anything moves or has moved; route; passage; an established way; as, the path of a meteor, of a caravan, of a storm, of a pestilence. Also used figuratively, of a course of life or action..

Bolide :: Bolide (n.) A kind of bright meteor; a bolis.

Daubreelite :: Daubreelite (n.) A sulphide of chromium observed in some meteoric irons.

Hydrometeorology :: Hydrometeorology (n.) That branch of meteorology which relates to, or treats of, water in the atmosphere, or its phenomena, as rain, clouds, snow, hail, storms, etc..

Meteoromancy :: Meteoromancy (n.) A species of divination by meteors, chiefly by thunder and lightning, which was held in high estimation by the Romans..

Holosiderite :: Holosiderite (n.) Meteoric iron; a meteorite consisting of metallic iron without stony matter.

Aerolite :: Aerolite (n.) A stone, or metallic mass, which has fallen to the earth from distant space; a meteorite; a meteoric stone..

Meteorite :: Meteorite (n.) A mass of stone or iron which has fallen to the earth from space; an aerolite.

Widmanstatten Figures :: Widmanstatten figures () Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstatten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite..

Meteorology :: Meteorology (n.) The science which treats of the atmosphere and its phenomena, particularly of its variations of heat and moisture, of its winds, storms, etc..

Meteorical :: Meteorical (a.) Meteoric.

Astrometeorology :: Astrometeorology (n.) The investigation of the relation between the sun, moon, and stars, and the weather..

Chondrule :: Chondrule (n.) A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imbedded more or less abundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites..

Meteorological :: Meteorological (a.) Of or pertaining to the atmosphere and its phenomena, or to meteorology..

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