meteoroid

And meteorites are meteoroids that survive their journey through the atmosphere and hits the ground.

Unusually, its trajectory was caught on several cameras in the region used to track meteoroids.

A Russian investigation concluded that those leaks likely resulted from hits by tiny meteoroids, not manufacturing flaws.

We wandered over to the first area—Space Is Dangerous—and watched a video of a hole being blown through a thick metal plate by a simulated meteoroid.

But on other worlds, it’s more typical to find metamorphic rocks forged in the split-second shock of a meteoroid impact.