meteoroid
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A recently published study reports that shaking from moonquakes, rather than impacts from meteoroids, was the main force behind the shifting terrain in the Taurus-Littrow valley, the site where Apollo 17 astronauts landed in 1972.
From Science Daily • Dec. 7, 2025
And meteorites are meteoroids that survive their journey through the atmosphere and hits the ground.
From BBC • Jul. 3, 2025
Unusually, its trajectory was caught on several cameras in the region used to track meteoroids.
From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2024
A Russian investigation concluded that those leaks likely resulted from hits by tiny meteoroids, not manufacturing flaws.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 2024
I can clearly see the Man in the Moon surrounded by all those craters created eons ago by a bombardment of meteoroids.
From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein
Vocabulary lists containing meteoroid
Space Science (Astronomy) - Introductory
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Earth and the Solar System - Middle School
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Earth and the Solar System - Introductory
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