Crossword-Solution: METEORITES
We have 6 clues for the answer “METEORITES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Crater-makers | 1 answer |
| Falling stars that reach the ground | 1 answer |
| Shower aftermath, maybe | 1 answer |
| They're seen after a shower | 1 answer |
| Stones from the sky | 2 answers |
| Crater creators | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AEEZMC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with METEORITES (5)
His idea was that meteorites might be falling in a heavy shower upon the planet, or that a huge volcanic explosion was in progress.
Denning, our greatest authority on meteorites, stated that the height of its first appearance was about ninety or one hundred miles.
The longest distance I achieved was with UA1DZ a Physics Professor at the University of Leningrad in the Soviet Union." Norman: "Forgive me for interrupting you, but please explain in simple terms what you mean by meteor scatter." George: "Meteor scatter is a way of making contacts on 2 metres by reflection from meteorites--'shooting stars' as they are called colloquially--which we see on clear nights during the summer.
Once when there were a lot of meteorites I was able to maintain contact with LX1SI of Luxembourg for a whole three minutes on SSB.
Millions of meteorites can be as small as a grain of sand and of course leave no visible trail when they strike the earth's atmosphere.
Quotes with METEORITES (3)
Meteorites don’t fall on the Earth. They fall on the Sun and the Earth gets in the way.” - John W. Campbell
It is hard to feel affection for something as totally impersonal as the atmosphere, and yet there it is, as much a part and product of life as wine and bread. Taken all in al, the sky is a miraculous achievement. It works, and for what it is designed to accomplish it is as infallible as anything in nature. I doubt whether any of us could think of a way to improve on it, beyond maybe shifting a local cloud from here to there on occasion. The word 'chance' does not serve to acc…
And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black rocks and slanting slabs of sandstone in the earth, ground water is creeping. Ground water seeps and slides, across and down, across and down, leaking from here to there, minutely at a rate of a mile a year. What a tug of waters goes on! There are flings and pulls in every direction at every moment. The world is a wild wrestle under the grass; earth shall be moved. What else is …
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1974–2023).