#extraterrestrial_object__estraterrestrial_body a natural object existing outside the earth and outside the earth's atmosphere
supertype: #natural_object__naturalobject an object occurring naturally; not made by man
part of: #existence
subtype: #comet (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit
subtype: #meteoroid (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere
subtype: #meteorite stony or metallic object that is the remains of a meteoroid that has reached the earth's surface
subtype: #aerolite a stony meteorite consisting of silicate minerals
subtype: #micrometeorite a meteorite so small that it drifts down to earth without becoming intensely heated in the atmosphere
subtype: #pallasite a meteorite composed principally of olivine and metallic iron
subtype: #siderite a meteorite consisting principally of nickel and iron
subtype: #meteor_swarm a group of meteoroids with similar paths
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