How to Use meteoroid in a Sentence

meteoroid

noun
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  • In these streams, even the largest meteoroids—the technical term for the solid bits of rock—tend to be small, only about the size of a grain of sand.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The light's green hue is likely due to the magnesium contained in the meteoroid.
    — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 14 July 2021
  • Sure, the James Webb being struck by a meteoroid isn’t ideal.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 9 June 2022
  • Cooke estimated the meteoroid was about 1 to 2 yards across and weighed more than a metric ton.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Astronomers then confirmed the meteoroid was poised to hit Earth in France in the early morning local time.
    — PCMAG, 13 Feb. 2023
  • This means the meteoroid (the solid part ramming through our atmosphere) was of a decent size (like a beachball, maybe?
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2012
  • Too small to be called planets, asteroids are rocky chunks that also orbit our sun along with the space rocks known as meteoroids.
    — National Geographic, 27 Mar. 2019
  • Scientists think the meteoroid may have measured 16 to 39 feet.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
  • When the meteoroids hit the surface at those shallow angles, some of each meteoroid would shear itself off and move down range from the impact site.
    — Liz Kruesi, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2017
  • Hundreds of millions of meteoroids, many of them the size of sand grains, enter Earth’s atmosphere every day.
    — Barry Lopez, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
  • The July 2017 event is known as a grazing fireball, a rare type of meteoroid that hits Earth’s atmosphere at a low angle, then skims like a skipping stone on a lake.
    — Joshua Sokol, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Tiny meteoroids are likely to blame for these Martian metals.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 13 Apr. 2017
  • Tiny meteoroids are likely to blame for these Martian metals.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 13 Apr. 2017
  • The meteoroids slam into the atmosphere at high speeds and vaporize.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 13 Apr. 2017
  • The meteoroids slam into the atmosphere at high speeds and vaporize.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 13 Apr. 2017
  • Even a tiny meteor that burned up in our atmosphere sent an alarming meteoroid arcing across the Michigan sky a few days ago.
    — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2018
  • Not long after this, the meteoroid broke apart, raining down small meteorites onto the ground which were later found spread over the countryside .
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2012
  • Meteors begin to ramp up several days before the peak, which means folks who want to wake up early to lie on a blanket or lawn chair to look up could see 25 to 50 meteoroids per hour.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2019
  • While very small meteoroids are common, larger ones – bigger than a dishwasher – are not.
    — Brian Elbing, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2024
  • Other remnants of the meteoroid's impact landed 23 miles away.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
  • If an asteroid or meteoroid does not burn up before impact, it is called a meteorite.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter then flew over the site to confirm where the meteoroid landed, spotting three darkened areas.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 19 Sep. 2022
  • And the stream of meteoroids only intersects Earth's orbit sometimes, which is what makes this potential outburst so rare.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Once these analyses are complete, scientists will know if any material from the meteoroid made it to the ground before burning up in the atmosphere.
    — Abigail Beck, The Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Most of the heating is due to the meteoroid's hypersonic passage through air, which compresses the gas, heating it up violently.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 2 Oct. 2011
  • The meteoroid was about two feet in diameter, NASA estimates.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Fortunately, the object was only about 1 meter (3.3 feet) in size, resulting in the meteoroid burning up in the atmosphere.
    — PCMAG, 13 Feb. 2023
  • But no one could tell whether the gas was a byproduct of microbial life, the result of geological reactions or a side effect of meteoroids and cosmic dust raining down on the planet.
    — Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 7 June 2018
  • What’s the difference between a meteoroid, a meteor, and a meteorite?
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Asteroids are larger than 3.2 feet in diameter, while anything smaller would be a meteoroid and could from a comet or asteroid.
    — Kimberly Miller, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2021

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