Meteorite (disambiguation)

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Meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object that originates in outer space and survives its passage through the atmosphere to impact with the surface of a planet or moon.

Meteorite may also refer to:

• Meteorite Hills, a group of hills, forming the western portion of the Darwin Mountains in Antarctica
• Meteorite Island, an island in Baffin Bay, in the Qaasuitsup municipality, off NW Greenland
• Meteorite (comics), a fictional superhero in the Marvel Comics universe who first appeared in the comic series, the Thunderbolts
• HMS Meteorite, an experimental U-boat developed in Germany, scuttled at the end of World War II, subsequently raised and commissioned into the Royal Navy
• Meteorites (wasp), a genus of wasps in the tribe Euphorini

Music

• Meteorites (album), the twelfth studio album by British band Echo & the Bunnymen
• "Meteorite" (Mariah Carey song), song by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey from her 2014 album Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse
• "Meteorite" (Years & Years song), 2016 song by Years & Years

See also

• Meteor (disambiguation)
• Meteoritics, science that deals with meteorites and other extraterrestrial materials that further our understanding of the origin and history of the Solar System
• Meteorite classification, grouping all meteorite specimens that share a common origin on a single, identifiable parent body
• Meteorite falls, also called observed falls, meteorites collected after their fall from space was observed by people or automated devices
• Meteorite finds, those meteorites that were found by people, but whose fall was not observed
• Meteorite weathering, the terrestrial alteration of a meteorite
• Meteorite Men, a documentary reality television series featuring two meteorite hunters
• Rolls-Royce Meteorite, also known as the Rover Meteorite, a V8 petrol or diesel engine derived from the Rolls-Royce Meteor
• Golden Meteorite Press, an independent Canadian publishing company of fiction, non-fiction, and children’s literature