stony meteorite

American  

noun

1. any of various meteorites composed mainly of rock-forming silicates, especially olivine, plagioclase, and pyroxene, and classified as achondrites or chondrites.

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stony meteorite British  

noun

1. a meteorite composed mainly of silicates

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stony meteorite Scientific  

1. See under meteorite

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Example Sentences

"We got very excited about this because we realised we weren't looking at a stony meteorite, but an iron meteorite - and not just any old iron meteorite; it had to be quite an unusual composition."

From BBC

“If you don’t have to have nickel in a stony meteorite, then you don’t have to have nickel in an iron meteorite.”

From The Verge

To distinguish a stony meteorite from terrestrial rock substances is not always easy, but there is usually little difficulty in pronouncing upon an iron meteorite.

From Project Gutenberg

The study's authors think these spherules could be material eroded from a stony meteorite as it was heated up on its way through our atmosphere.

From BBC

Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History last week exhibited an extraordinary collection of objects: a stony meteorite with a charred black surface, about the size of a military hand grenade and weighing four pounds; part of a garage roof; the steel turret top of an automobile; an automobile cushion and floor board.

From Time Magazine Archive