define the term meteoroid.
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meteoroid meteoroid - (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere. meteor. astronomy, uranology - the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole.
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Meteoroid This definition corrects for the greater distance between an observer and a meteor near the horizon. For example, a meteor of magnitude −1 at 5 degrees above the horizon would be classified as a fireball because, if the observer had been directly below the meteor, it would have appeared as magnitude −6.
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Meteor shower! What is a meteor shower? A meteor is a space rock—or meteoroid—that enters Earth's atmosphere. As the space rock falls toward Earth, the resistance—or drag—of the air on the rock makes it extremely hot. What we see is a shooting star.. That bright streak is not actually the rock, but rather the glowing hot air as the hot rock zips through the atmosphere. When Earth encounters many meteoroids at once, we call it a meteor shower.
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Meteoroid From a meteoroid to a meteor and meteorite: how a meteoroid enters the atmosphere to become visible as a meteor and impact the Earth's surface as a meteorite. A meteoroid (/ˈmiːtiərɔɪd/) is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space. Meteoroids are significantly smaller than asteroids, and range in size from small grains to 1 meter-wide objects.
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meteor A meteor is a space rock that hits the atmosphere of the Earth. It's also another word for a shooting star. There are a lot of bodies in space, such as suns, planets, and moons. Those are all rather large, but there are smaller bodies too, such as meteors. A meteor is a smaller body in space that collides with the Earth or another planet.
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Meteors, Meteoroids, and Meteorites A meteoroid is a solid body in interplanetary space before it reaches the Earth's atmosphere. A meteor denotes the fiery streak or shooting star which appears when a tiny meteoroid strikes the Earth's atmosphere and burns up. Most meteors result from meteoroids no more than a few centimeters in diameter. A larger meteoroid which survives the fiery passage through the Earth's atmosphere as a meteor and strikes the Earth's surface is called a meteorite. Meteoric material less than a tenth of a millimeter in diameter is called cosmic dust.
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What is the definition of a meteor? A meteor is defined as a piece of material that passes through Earth’s atmosphere. While it is traveling through space and before it enters the atmosphere, a meteor is called a meteoroid. Continue Reading.
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Kryptonite Once it hits the Earth, the fragments (if any!) are called meteorites.   A meteorite is a rock, usually big, that is in space outside of Earth's atmosphere. A meteor is a meteorite that has entered Earth's atmosphere without burning up. A meteoroid is in space, a sand to boulder-sized piece of space debris orbiting the Sun.
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Meteorite (Redirected from NWA meteorites) A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object, such as a comet, asteroid, or meteoroid, that originates in outer space and survives its passage through the Earth's atmosphere and impact with the Earth's surface or that of another planet.
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What is the difference between meteors meteoroids and meteorites? The difference between a meteoroid and a meteorite is that a meteoroid is a rock from the size of a grain of sand to that of a boulder that is in our solar system.
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The Difference Between Meteors, Meteorites, and Meteoroids When several meteoroids are passing through the Earth’s atmosphere, it is called a meteor shower. Once a meteor has finished passing through the atmosphere and has struck the Earth’s surface, it is considered a meteorite. A Meteorite. So, the life of a meteoroid would go something like this:
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- Meteorite-is a meteoroid that has survived entry through the atmosphere and reached the Earths surface. There are some more interesting facts about Meteoroids and their journey through the Earths atmosphere. These can be seen here.
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meteor (plural meteors) ( 1 archaic) Any atmospheric phenomenon. 2  A fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere: A shooting star or falling star. ( 3 juggling) A prop similar to poi balls, in that it is twirled at the end of a cord or cable.
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meteor A meteoroid is a rock in space that has the potential to collide with the Earth's atmosphere. Meteoroids range in size from a speck of dust to a chunk about 100 meters in diameter, though most are smaller than a pebble. When a meteoroid enters the atmosphere, it becomes a meteor.
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Definitions &Translations Plan′etoid, a celestial body having the form or nature of a planet: one of a number of very small planets, often called asteroids, moving round the sun between Mars and Jupiter.—adjs. Planetoi′dal; Plan′et-strick′en, Plan′et-struck (astrol.), affected by the influence of the planets: blasted.—
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Meteor A meteor is the visible path of a meteoroid that enters the Earth's (or another body's) atmosphere, commonly called a shooting star or falling star. A meteor is a meteoroid that has entered the earth's atmosphere. It will then become brightly visible due to the heat produced by the ram pressure. If a meteor survives its transit of the atmosphere to come to rest on the Earth's surface, the resulting object is called a meteorite.
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meteorite Definition of meteorite for English Language Learners : a piece of rock or metal that has fallen to the ground from outer space : a meteor that reaches the surface of the Earth without burning up entirely
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Definitions &Translations Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Micrometeoroid. A micrometeoroid is a tiny meteoroid; a small particle of rock in space, usually weighing less than a gram. A micrometeorite is such a particle that survives passage through the Earth's atmosphere and reaches the Earth's surface.
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crater crater. 1  the cup-shaped depression or cavity on the surface of the earth or other heavenly body marking the orifice of a volcano. 2  Also called impact crater, meteorite crater. 3  Astronomy. 4  the bowllike orifice of a geyser. 5  the hole or pit in the ground where a bomb, shell, or military mine has exploded.
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Infographic: Whatâs the Difference Between a Comet, Asteroid and Meteor? Space debris smaller than an asteroid are called meteoroids. A meteoroid is a piece of interplanetary matter that is smaller than an asteroid and frequently are only millimeters in size. Most meteoroids that enter the Earth’s atmosphere are so small that they vaporize completely and never reach the planet’s surface.
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Definition of 'meteor' Translations for 'meteor'. British English: meteor NOUN. A meteor is a piece of rock or metal that burns very brightly when it enters the earth's atmosphere from space. Brazilian Portuguese: meteoro.
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- Quatr.us Physics Space. Meteor. Meteors or meteorites are bits of rock (like granite) and ice-usually a mixture of rock and iron and nickel but sometimes just rock or just iron-from out in space that get sucked into the gravity of the Earth and fall through our atmosphere to the ground. meteor is the same thing as a shooting star or a falling star-they're not really falling stars, but some people call them that. Meteors look like stars as they fall because when they hit Earth's atmosphere the friction of the rock rubbing against the atmosphere causes heat and light, like a fire.
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Whatâs The Difference Between a Meteor, Meteorite, Comet, and an Asteroid? Meteoroid-A small particle from an asteroid or comet orbiting the Sun. Meteor-A meteoroid that is observed as it burns up in the Earth’s atmosphere – a shooting star. Meteorite-A meteoroid that survives its passage through the Earth’s atmosphere and impacts the Earth’s surface.In summation, an asteroid is a relatively small object out in space.When an asteroid breaks through our atmosphere and burns up, it becomes a meteor. If the asteroid manages to get all the way through our atmosphere and actually hits the surface of the planet, it is classified as a meteorite.eteor-A meteoroid that is observed as it burns up in the Earth’s atmosphere – a shooting star. Meteorite-A meteoroid that survives its passage through the Earth’s atmosphere and impacts the Earth’s surface. “ 1 Meteorite Strikes In Russia’s Ural Mountains”. “ 2 Asteroid To Make Close Call With Earth”.
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Meteoroid If that object withstands ablation from its passage through the atmosphere as a meteor and impacts with the ground, it is then called a meteorite. Around 15,000 tonnes of meteoroids, micrometeoroids and different forms of space dust enter Earth's atmosphere each year. meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body travelling through space. Meteoroids are significantly smaller than asteroids, and range in size from small grains to 1 meter-wide objects.
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Meteors, Meteoroids, and Meteorites A meteoroid is a solid body in interplanetary space before it reaches the Earth's atmosphere. A meteor denotes the fiery streak or shooting star which appears when a tiny meteoroid strikes the Earth's atmosphere and burns up. Most meteors result from meteoroids no more than a few centimeters in diameter.
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Meteor shower! A meteor is a space rock—or meteoroid—that enters Earth's atmosphere. As the space rock falls toward Earth, the resistance—or drag—of the air on the rock makes it extremely hot. What we see is a shooting star..