meteoriticist

1. (astronomy, mineralogy, geochemistry, cosmochemistry) A scientist involved in meteoritics.Examples: "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."; "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."; "Most of the meteoriticists who "discover" new meteorites depend on someone from the general public to bring in a strange rock they have encountered."