meteoriticist

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Etymology

meteoritic +‎ -ist.

Noun

meteoriticist (plural meteoriticists)

  1. (astronomy, mineralogy, geochemistry, cosmochemistry) A scientist involved in meteoritics.
    • 1967, Robert Shirley Richardson, Getting Acquainted with Comets, McGraw-Hill, page 133:
      The following is a not-too-imaginary conversation between a meteoriticist and an important on-the-spot witness to a fireball that went soaring over his alfalfa patch.
    • 1986, Robert T. Dodd, Thunderstones and Shooting Stars: The Meaning of Meteorites, Harvard University Press, page 90:
      In spite of this reservation, most meteoriticists now accept extinct aluminum-26 as the most likely source of heat for the meteorite parent bodies: it was abundant when the solar system formed, and it decayed fast enough to account for the intense but brief thermal histories of most meteorites.
    • 1997, The Planetary Report, volumes 17-18, The Planetary Society, page 20:
      Most of the meteoriticists who "discover" new meteorites depend on someone from the general public to bring in a strange rock they have encountered.

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