meteor vs meteorite vs meteoroid
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noun
- (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere
- a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode
Examples
In the near rocks zone, a battle airship firmly adsorb to a great meteorolite, an eye warrior watch with scout far places of Flolamp fleets, soundless, Boss, Flolamp have leaved for Life Star.
A meteorological screen, containing thermometers and a barograph, had been erected on a post frozen into the ice, and observations were taken every four hours.
Meteorologists have known since 1946 that dry ice sprinkled on clouds can cause rain to fall.
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noun
- stony or metallic object that is the remains of a meteoroid that has reached the earth's surface
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Henry Clifton Sorby, a nineteenth-century meteorite enthusiast, described chondrules as ‘droplets of fiery rain.’
The sight of the fireball was followed by a sonic boom as the meteorite exploded into thousands of pieces over Barwell near Leicester.
My research has largely been in the chemistry of how the particular components of chondrites, very primitive meteorites, actually formed in the solar nebula.
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noun
- (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere
Examples
A meteoroid is matter revolving around the sun or any object in interplanetary space that is too small to be called an asteroid or a comet.
A meteoroid is matter revolving around the sun or any object in interplanetary space that is too small to be called an asteroid or a comet.
The space debris and meteoroid environment are defined followed by the formulation of the general weight objective function.
