Definition of "meteorites" []

• Plural form of meteorite. (noun)

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• "Radioactive meteorites from a meteor shower crash into a cemetery causing the dead to rise as flesh-eating zombies."
• "In connection with neverceasing curiosity as to the constancy of the atomic weights, I wondered later whether or not iron in meteorites, possibly having its birth far beyond the limits of the solar system, might have a different atomic weight from ordinary iron."
• "Small comets, such as we call meteorites, were picked up on the surface of the moon and put to this practical use."