A meteoroid (/ˈmiːtiərɔɪd/ MEE-tee-ə-royd) is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space. Meteoroids are distinguished as objects significantly smaller...

night sky. These meteors are caused by streams of cosmic debris called meteoroids entering Earth's atmosphere at extremely high speeds on parallel trajectories...

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...

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...

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...

1767 meteoroid stream. Earth moves through meteoroid streams left from passages of a comet. The streams consist of solid particles, known as meteoroids, normally...

found to be consistent with the expected distribution of debris from a meteoroid air burst. Later studies of the spheres found unusual ratios of numerous...

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...

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

planetary systems, though the most frequent involve asteroids, comets or meteoroids and have minimal effect. When large objects impact terrestrial planets...

creating a shock wave. The meteoroid then experiences what is known as ram pressure. As the air in front of the meteoroid is compressed its temperature...

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...

number of small Solar System bodies, such as asteroids, comets, centaurs, meteoroids, and interplanetary dust clouds. Some of these bodies are in the asteroid...

which are affected primarily by radiation pressure are known as "beta meteoroids". They are generally less than 1.4 × 10−12 g and are pushed outward from...

amount of material coming from the same meteorite fall: often a single meteoroid during atmospheric entry tends to fragment into more pieces. The table...

caused by iron meteoroids, which are most easily able to transit the atmosphere intact. Examples of craters caused by iron meteoroids include Barringer...

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...

1972. It collected information on dust particles produced as a result of meteoroid impacts on the surface of the Moon. Instruments on Pioneer 8 and Pioneer...

exosphere (~10,000 km or 6,200 mi) (see also thermopause). For example, a meteoroid can become a meteor at an altitude of 85–120 km (53–75 mi) above the Earth...

infrared and ultraviolet observations of Jupiter, detect asteroids and meteoroids, determine the composition of charged particles, and to measure magnetic...

of the promise he made to him. / Kazama and the children get afraid of meteoroids and dig the ground to create a bunker to save food for future. The principal...

energy resulting from either the impact of a meteoroid with a spacecraft or the explosive breakup of a meteoroid passing through the Earth's atmosphere. Coronal...

Meteorites (meteoroid debris) hit multiple places in Ernakulam district. Small fragments which are believed to be parts of the meteoroid were recovered...

International Designator: 1965-060A Rosenthal, R. (1965). "The Pegasus Meteoroid Technology Satellite". Unmanned Spacecraft Meeting 1965. Reston, Virginia:...

has no protection from meteoroids, and all of them collide with the surface as meteorites and create craters. Most meteoroids burn up as meteors before...

vibrations are due to internal seismic sources (moonquakes) and external (meteoroids and impacts from the spent S-IVB and LM ascent stages). The primary objective...

ballistic shield. Below 2,000 km (1,200 mi), pieces of debris are denser than meteoroids. Most are dust from solid rocket motors, surface erosion debris like paint...

deldot flips from negative to positive.) Tomko, D.; Neslusan, L. (2016). "Meteoroid stream of 12 P / Pons-Brooks , December κ Draconids, and northern June...

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E rings. The source of this ring is hypothesized to be the crashing of a meteoroid off Janus and Epimetheus. In July 2006, images were returned of hydrocarbon...