meteoroid
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But on other worlds, it’s more typical to find metamorphic rocks forged in the split-second shock of a meteoroid impact.
From National Geographic • Oct. 12, 2023
The meteoroid appeared so enormous they are sure they heard it roaring across the heavens.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2023
Moving at hypersonic speeds—between 40,000 and a staggering 260,000 kilometers per hour, depending on the direction from which it approaches our planet—the meteoroid rams the air ahead of it.
From Scientific American • Sep. 8, 2023
One temblor was caused by a marsquake — an earthquake on Mars, that is — while the other came from a large meteoroid impact.
From Salon • Apr. 25, 2023
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.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing meteoroid
Space Science (Astronomy) - Introductory
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Earth and the Solar System - Middle School
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Earth and the Solar System - Introductory
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