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Meteoroid
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a small celestial body that becomes visible as a meteor upon entrance into the atmosphere of the earth
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Inanimate
Composition
Compound
Countable
Plural form
meteoroids
Examples
A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic object in outer space that is significantly smaller than an asteroid and larger than a micrometeoroid.
Lexical Tree
micrometeoroid
meteoroid
