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noun - (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere
A solid body, moving in space, that is smaller than an asteroid and at least as large as a speck of dust.
METEOROID - A meteoroid () is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space. Meteoroids are significantly smaller than asteroids, and range in size from small gr...
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| A solid body, moving in space, that is smaller than an asteroid and at least as large as a speck of dust. |
| a small body moving in the solar system that would become a meteor if it entered the earth's atmosphere. |
| (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere |
| a piece of rock or other matter in space that has not yet entered the earth's atmosphere |
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A meteoroid () is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space. * Meteoroids are significantly smaller than asteroids, and range in size from small grains to one-meter-wide objects. Objects smaller than this are classified as micrometeoroids or space dust. Most are fragments from comets or asteroids, whereas others are collision impact debris ejected from bodies such as the Moon or Mars.When a meteoroid, comet, or asteroid enters Earth's atmosphere at a speed typically in excess of 20 km/s (72,000 km/h; 45,000 mph), aerodynamic heating of that object produces a streak of light, both from the glowing object and the trail of glowing particles that it leaves in its wake. This phenomenon is called a meteor or "shooting star". A series of many meteors appearing seconds or minutes apart and appearing to originate from the same fixed point in the sky is called a meteor shower. If that object withstands ablation from its passage through the atmosphere as a meteor and impacts with the ground, it |