Antedating of "Meteorite"

[Fred Shapiro]

meteorite (OED3 1824)

1823 _The Monitor_ Sept. 305 (American Periodical Series)  That meteorites
do really fall from the upper regions of the air to the earth, can no
longer be doubted.

Fred Shapiro


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