Assertion: meteoroid's mass | /r/CapableOf | land on the earth
Facets:
value: from the sky
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: from space
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: ``[a] solid bod[y] which came to the earth from space'' (Farrington 1915); ``A mass of solid matter, too small to be considered an asteroid; either traveling through space as an unattached unit, or having landed on the earth and still retaining its identity'' (Nininger 1933); ``[a meteoroid] which has reached the surface of the Earth without being vaporized''
text: nf. meteorite, mass of stone or metal that falls to earth, fallen meteoroid
text: [ Confer French.]A mass of stone or iron which has fallen to the earth from space; an aërolite.
text: A fallen meteor; a mass of stone or iron, that has fallen from the sky upon the earth; a meteoric stone.
text: ``[a] solid bod[y] which came to the earth from space'' (Farrington 1915); ``A mass of solid matter, too small to be considered an asteroid; either traveling through space as an unattached unit, or having landed on the earth and still retaining its identity'' (Nininger 1933); ``[a meteoroid] which has reached the surface of the Earth without being vaporized''