- A
meteoroid (/ˈmiːtiərɔɪd/ MEE-tee-ə-royd) is a
small rocky or
metallic body in
outer space.
Meteoroids are
distinguished as
objects significantly smaller...
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night sky.
These meteors are
caused by
streams of
cosmic debris called meteoroids entering Earth's
atmosphere at
extremely high
speeds on
parallel trajectories...
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colloquially as a
shooting star, is a
glowing streak of a
small body (usually
meteoroid)
going through Earth's atmosphere,
after being heated to incandescence...
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Explorer 46, (also
Meteoroid Technology Satellite-A or MTS-A), was a NASA
satellite launched as part of
Explorer program.
Explorer 46 was
designed to...
- all day. The
visible phenomenon due to the p****age of an
asteroid or
meteoroid through the
atmosphere is
termed a meteor. If the
object reaches the ground...
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planetary systems,
though the most
frequent involve asteroids,
comets or
meteoroids and have
minimal effect. When
large objects impact terrestrial planets...
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number of
small Solar System bodies, such as asteroids, comets, centaurs,
meteoroids, and
interplanetary dust clouds. Some of
these bodies are in the asteroid...
- A
micrometeoroid is a tiny
meteoroid: a
small particle of rock in space,
usually weighing less than a gram. A
micrometeorite is such a
particle that survives...
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Earth moves through meteoroid streams left from p****ages of a comet. The
streams consist of
solid particles,
known as
meteoroids,
normally ejected by...
- A
meteor air
burst is a type of air
burst in
which a
meteoroid explodes after entering a
planetary body's atmosphere. This fate
leads them to be called...
