Search results
- Dictionaryme·te·or·oid/ˈmēdēəˌroid/
noun
- 1. a small body moving in the solar system that would become a meteor if it entered the earth's atmosphere.
Powered by Oxford Dictionaries
noun
Powered by Oxford Dictionaries
A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space. Meteoroids are distinguished as objects significantly smaller than asteroids, ranging in size from grains to objects up to a meter wide. Objects smaller than meteoroids are classified as micrometeoroids or space dust. Many are fragments from comets or asteroids, whereas others are collision impact debris ejected from bodies such as the ... Wikipedia