meteoroid

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A relatively small (sand- to boulder-sized) fragment of debris in a star system that produces a meteor when it hits the atmosphere

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meteoroid meteoroids

From meteor + -oid.

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micrometeoroid meteoroidal

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