A meteoroid (/ˈmiːtiərɔɪd/ MEE-tee-ə-royd) is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space. Meteoroids are distinguished as objects significantly smaller...
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Meteor shower (redirect from Meteoroid shower)
night sky. These meteors are caused by streams of cosmic debris called meteoroids entering Earth's atmosphere at extremely high speeds on parallel trajectories...
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Meteorites (meteoroid debris) hit multiple places in Ernakulam district. Small fragments which are believed to be parts of the meteoroid were recovered...
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A Helion meteoroid is a meteoroid that arrives from the approximate direction of the Sun. They are thought to originate as debris from Sun-grazing comets...
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Explorer 46 (redirect from Meteoroid Technology Satellite)
Explorer 46, (also Meteoroid Technology Satellite-A or MTS-A), was a NASA satellite launched as part of Explorer program. Explorer 46 was designed to...
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showers the visible rate is greatest in the pre-dawn hours, since more meteoroids are scooped up by the side of the Earth moving forward into the stream...
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Chelyabinsk meteor (redirect from Russian meteoroid event in 2013)
all day. The visible phenomenon due to the passage of an asteroid or meteoroid through the atmosphere is termed a meteor. If the object reaches the ground...
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1767 meteoroid stream. Earth moves through meteoroid streams left from passages of a comet. The streams consist of solid particles, known as meteoroids, normally...
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air burst by an asteroid 6–10 km (4–6 mi) above the Earth's surface. Meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere from outer space every day, travelling at a speed...
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A meteor air burst is a type of air burst in which a meteoroid explodes after entering a planetary body's atmosphere. This fate leads them to be called...
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