Thesaurus: meteoroid
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.
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Definitions
- n. 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.
- n. (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere
- j:19/n:81 n. (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere