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meteoroid |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Meteoroid \Me"te*or*oid\, n. [Meteor + -oid.] (Astron.) A small body moving through space, or revolving about the sun, which on entering the earth's atmosphere would be deflagrated and appear as a meteor. These bodies [small, solid bodies] before they come into the air, I call meteoroids. --H. A. Newton. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: meteoroid n : (astronomy) any of the small solid bodies traveling through space around the sun
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