meteoroid
Example Sentences
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A meteoroid is a "small particle" from an asteroid.
From Fox News
The experts also noted the 110 trillion pounds of meteoroids that impacted the Earth and moon were "approximately 30–60 times more than the Chicxulub impact."
From Fox News
“It’s the first of a possibly large number of meteoroid streams we might create in the solar system that could become a hazard,” he said.
From New York Times
A small chunk of an asteroid or comet is known as a meteoroid.
From Fox News
For example, both Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 had left behind seismometers to measure meteoroid impacts and “moonquakes.”
From Scientific American
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