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    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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    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, (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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    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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    by NASA B.G. Cour-Palais' reminisces of the Apollo meteoroid protection program The Skylab meteoroid shield design and development ESA Giotto dust shield...
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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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