regmaglypts

Noun

regmaglypt (plural regmaglypts)

1. A small, shallow indentation or pit on the surface of a meteorite, resembling a thumbprint impression in clay, created by ablation while falling in an atmosphere.
   • But, as the author has established, when an individual sample of a meteorite shower has a semi-orientated shape (roughly conoid, as in the given case), it must have definite morphological properties: on its front surface it must have a fully developed typical regmaglypt – relief which has had time...1960, E. L. Krinov [i.e., Yevgeny Leonidovich Krinov], “Morphology of Meteorites”, in Irene Vidziunas, transl., edited by Harrison Brown, Principles of Meteoritics; Translated from the Russian...

   Synonyms:

   pezograph, piezoglypt