About The Word Meteoroid
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Meteoroid
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What's The Definition Of Meteoroid?
[n] (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere
Synonyms | Synonyms for Meteoroid: Related Terms | Find terms related to Meteoroid: 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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