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Meteoroid

Meteoroid Meaning & Definition
Meteoroid Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Meteoroid?

[n] (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere

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See Also | estraterrestrial body | extraterrestrial object | meteor swarm | meteorite

Meteoroid In Webster's Dictionary

\Me"te*or*oid\, n. [Meteor + -oid.] (Astron.) A small body moving through space, or revolving about the sun, which on entering the earth's atmosphere would be deflagrated and appear as a meteor. These bodies [small, solid bodies] before they come into the air, I call meteoroids. --H. A. Newton.

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