meteoroid

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The compressed air starts to glow, and when it reaches a temperature of about 2,000 degrees Celsius, the solid material in the meteoroid starts to vaporize.

From Scientific American

In these streams, even the largest meteoroids—the technical term for the solid bits of rock—tend to be small, only about the size of a grain of sand.

From Scientific American

Meteors, or “shooting stars,” are the visible paths of meteoroids that fall into the Earth’s atmosphere at high velocities, according to NASA.

From Los Angeles Times

One temblor was caused by a marsquake — an earthquake on Mars, that is — while the other came from a large meteoroid impact.

From Salon

As with most meteor showers, this one is produced by the dust sputtered off a comet, and is best seen in the early morning hours when the Earth runs headlong into the meteoroid stream.

From Washington Post