Meteorite
From TARDIS Index File, the free Doctor Who reference.
An meteorite is an object from space, usually rock, that survives an impact with Earth's surface. Some fraction of them are vessels for alien energies and/or entities.
Liz Shaw was an expert on meteorites. (DW: Spearhead from Space)
[edit] Known Meteorites
- In 1283, a meteorite from the Jeggorabax Cluster landed in the Weserbergland Mountains of Lower Saxony, in present-day Germany. The Weserbergland Meteorite housed an energy entity that would become known as the Pied Piper. (SJA: The Day of the Clown)
- In 1913, the Family of Blood arrived at Farringham in an invisible spaceship. John Smith dismissed it as a meteorite. (DW: Human Nature)
- In the 1970s, the Nestene Consciousness fashioned plastic meteorites and sent them to Earth to prepare for an invasion. (DW: Spearhead from Space)
- In 2007, Sex Gas came to Earth in an meteorite which fell near Cardiff. (TW: Day One)
- In 2009, the meteorite K67 almost impacted with the Earth, but this was averted. (SJA: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?)
- In the late 21st century, Space Station W3 warned spacecraft of meteorite storms. (DW: The Wheel in Space)
- In the late 22nd century, the Daleks used meteorites to spread a plague on Earth prior to their invasion six months later. (DW: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)
