Look up: meteoroid


  1. meteoroid
    A small rock in space.
    Found op http://www.solarviews.com/eng/terms.htm

  2. Meteoroid
    Meteoroids are tiny stones or pieces of metal that travel through space.
    Found op http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/glossary/

  3. Meteoroid
    Small bodies in orbit about the sun which are candidates for falling to Earth or to another planet.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contributions.php

  4. Meteoroid
    A solid object moving in interplanetary space, of a size considerably smaller than a asteroid and considerably larger than an atom or molecule.
    Found op http://www.imo.net/glossary

  5. meteoroid
    [n] - (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth`s atmosphere
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=meteoroid

  6. Meteoroid
    Any small solid object in space. Most meteoroids are barely bigger than a grain of sand.
    Found op http://www.delscope.demon.co.uk/astronomy/glossary.htm

  7. Meteoroid
    A floating piece of small rock in space.
    Found op http://www.solarspace.co.uk/Glossary3.php

  8. Meteoroid
    An object in space similar to but smaller than an asteroid. See also: Meteor, Meteorite.
    Found op http://www.diracdelta.co.uk/science/source/m/e/meteoroid/source.html

  9. Meteoroid
    Me'te·or·oid (mē'te*ẽr*oid) noun [ Meteor + -oid .] (Astron.) A small body moving through space, or revolving about the sun, which on entering the earth's atmosphere would be deflagrated and appear as a meteor. «...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/58

  10. meteoroid
    <astronomy> A small body moving through space, or revolving about the sun, which on entering the earth's atmosphere would be deflagrated and appear as a meteor. 'These bodies [small, solid bodies] before they come into the air, I call meteoroids.' (H. A. Newton) ... Origin: Meteor. ... Source:...
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  1. meteoroid
    meteor noun (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth`s atmosphere
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=meteoroid

  2. Meteoroid
    • (n.) A small body moving through space, or revolving about the sun, which on entering the earth`s atmosphere would be deflagrated and appear as a meteor.
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/meteoroid/

  3. meteoroid
    (from the article `meteor and meteoroid`) respectively, a glowing streak in the sky (meteor) and its cause, which is a relatively small stony or metallic natural object from space (meteoroid) ... temporary rise in the rate of meteor sightings, caused by the entry into Earth`s atmosphere of a number ...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/m/79

  4. meteoroid
    meteoroid 1. A body moving through space, of the same nature as those which when passing through the atmosphere become visible as meteors. 2. One of the many small bodies in the solar system that become meteors on entering the earth’s atmosphere.
    Found op http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/1455/13

  5. Meteoroid
    is a small rock or boulder that has entered a planetary atmosphere. If it survives to reach the ground, it is then termed a meteorite.
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_astronomy

  6. Meteoroid
    A meteoroid is a sand- to boulder-sized particle of debris in the Solar System. The visible path of a meteoroid that enters Earth`s (or another body`s) atmosphere is called a meteor, or colloquially a shooting star or falling star. If a meteoroid reaches the ground and survives impact, then it is c...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoroid

  7. meteoroid
    A small rocky or metallic object in orbit around the Sun (or another star). A meteoroid which strikes the Earth (or other large body) is called a meteorite. As a meteoroid encounters the Earth's atmosphere frictional heating begins at an altitude of 100 to 120 km. What happens next depends on the sp...
    Found op http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/M/meteoroid.html

  8. meteoroid
    meteoroid: see meteor.
    Found op http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0916192.html

  9. Meteoroid
    A meteoroid is any body drifting in space that has a large enough mass to be detected but which is significantly smaller than an asteroid. The exact limit at which a meteoroid is reclassified as an asteroid is up for debate, but generally, any object smaller than 50 meters in diameter is considered ...
    Found op http://www.moonconnection.com/moon-glossary.phtml

  10. Meteoroid
    A small, rocky object in orbit around the Sun, smaller than an asteroid.
    Found op http://www.seasky.org/astronomy/astronomy-glossary.html

  11. meteoroid
    1) A small rock in space 2) Estraterrestrial body 3) Extraterrestrial object 4) Meteor
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/meteoroid/1

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