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Перевод: meteorite

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метеорит

Тезаурус:

1. Any rock lying around on the frozen continent stands a good chance of being a meteorite as - the occasional ice-piercing mountain aside - there is nowhere else to come from but the heavens.
2. WITHIN the past decade, the thick ice sheet that covers Antarctica has yielded more than 5000 fragments of meteorite.
3. A few of the rarer sorts of meteorite have been chipped off much larger blocks: the Moon and Mars.
4. A year later, US geologists found on a moraine in the Thiel Mountains two portions of a rare type of stony-iron meteorite, called a pallasite, consisting of individual crystals of olivine, (Mg, Fe) 2SiO4, scattered through a matrix of metal.
5. The EUROMET project, with a budget of 400,000 ecus (480,000), has been given the job of building an EC meteorite mountain, and teams of hardy Euro-researchers are already out scavenging.
6. To speak as I have of meteorite "concentrations" may conjure the wrong image.
7. By chance, in December 1969, Japanese glacial geologists surveying broad fields of blue ice inland from the Yamato Mountains ( officially , the Queen Fabiola Mountains) at about 70S; 37E, stumbled upon nine black meteorite fragments lying within a short distance of one another.
8. No more were found until 1961 when a party from the Soviet Union discovered two fragments of a broken nickel-iron meteorite lying in a glacial moraine near Lazarev Base.
9. It was also in the Allan Hills region that a rare diamond-bearing iron meteorite turned up (see Figure 5 and Box 2).
10. About 4000 meteorite fragments have been collected from expanses of bare ice measuring about 4000 sq.
11. Terrestrial ages determined on Antarctic chondrites (the most abundant type of meteorite found throughout the world, see Box 2) range from about 1000 to 700 000 years, with some clustering of ages in the range of 300 000 to 600 000 years.
12. She had analysed four of the specimens and found that each belonged to a completely different class of stony meteorite!
13. One Martian meteorite already recovered from Antarctica, which has been analysed at Milton Keynes, contained significant amounts of organic chemicals.