meteorite

Summary

meteorite ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (733 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• meteorite's image is recorded as Namibie Hoba Meteorite 05.JPG^[2].
• meteorite's GND ID is recorded as 4038950-9^[3].
• meteorite's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85084315^[4].
• meteorite's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11932495k^[5].
• meteorite's subclass of is recorded as rock^[6].
• meteorite's subclass of is recorded as astronomical object^[7].
• meteorite's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00564158^[8].
• meteorite's Commons category is recorded as Meteorites^[9].
• meteorite's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 33719^[10].
• meteorite's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05067^[11].
• meteorite's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph122776^[12].
• meteorite's location of formation is recorded as universe^[13].
• meteorite's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Meteorites^[14].
• meteorite's Commons gallery is recorded as Meteorite^[15].
• meteorite's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300266159^[16].
• meteorite's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 523.51^[17].
• meteorite's PSH ID is recorded as 4794^[18].
• meteorite's Library of Congress Classification is recorded as QB759^[19].
• meteorite's U.S. National Archives Identifier is recorded as 10676021^[20].
• meteorite's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 366079^[21].
• meteorite's Iconclass notation is recorded as 24E3^[22].
• meteorite's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0123276^[23].
• meteorite's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia^[24].
• meteorite's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[25].
• meteorite's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[26].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for meteorite include kryptonite^[27]; impact winter^[28], a global cooling^[29]; Kh-90 Meteorit^[30], a missile model^[31]; and Kh-80^[32], a missile model^[33].

Why It Matters

meteorite ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (733 views/month).^[1] meteorite has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[34] meteorite is known by 67 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[35]

Entities named for meteorite include kryptonite^[27]; impact winter^[28], a global cooling^[29]; Kh-90 Meteorit^[30], a missile model^[31]; and Kh-80^[32], a missile model^[33].