Meteoroid
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meteoroid-176-7023790
title:
Meteoroid
text:
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 Moon or Mars. A meteor or shooting star is the visible passage of a meteoroid, comet, or asteroid en
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Sand- to boulder-sized particle of debris in the Solar System
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoroid
date created:
2002-07-23T19:56:56Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T17:30:59Z
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13
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16