meteoroid

Unusually, its trajectory was caught on several cameras in the region used to track meteoroids.

A Russian investigation concluded that those leaks likely resulted from hits by tiny meteoroids, not manufacturing flaws.

We wandered over to the first area—Space Is Dangerous—and watched a video of a hole being blown through a thick metal plate by a simulated meteoroid.

But on other worlds, it’s more typical to find metamorphic rocks forged in the split-second shock of a meteoroid impact.

The meteoroid appeared so enormous they are sure they heard it roaring across the heavens.