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A meteorite so small that it drifts down to earth without becoming intensely heated in the atmosphere
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micrometeorite
Word definitions for micrometeorite in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. an extraterrestrial particle, less than a millimeter in size, that has survived entry into the atmosphere without melting
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A micrometeorite is an extraterrestrial particle, ranging in size from 50 µm to 2 mm , collected on the Earth's surface. Micrometeorites are micrometeoroids which have survived entry through the Earth's atmosphere . They differ from meteorites in being ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a meteorite or meteoroid so small that it drifts down to earth without becoming intensely heated in the atmosphere [syn: micrometeoroid , micrometeor ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
micrometeorite \micrometeorite\ n. A meteorite so small that it drifts down to Earth without becoming intensely heated in the earth's atmosphere.
Usage examples of micrometeorite.
There is the usual gleaming white oversuit - the thermal micrometeorite garment - with the lower legs and overshoes scuffed and stained with Tycho dust.
There are craters everywhere, overlaid circles of all sizes, some barely visible in a surface gardened by billions of years of micrometeorite impact.
Bado, with relief, peels off the three layers of his pressure suit: the outer micrometeorite garment, the pressure assembly and the inner cooling garment.
Moon suit out of the car, and hauled it on: first the cooling garment, then the pressure layer, and finally the white micrometeorite protector and his blue lunar overshoes.
Made brittle by constant immersion in lethal ozone baths and high-altitude acid sleets, its fuselage and wings were riddled with pinholes from micrometeorite hits and passage through volcanic dust clouds.
Others were much older, little more than circular scars overlaid by younger basins and worn down, presumably by a billion years of micrometeorite rain.
Ashif and off into the endless night: odd small micrometeorites, crystallized carbon of some sort, very hard, very tiny, and mixed up with other meteors.
If an alien probe is there, could we spot it among the countless dots and specks that will represent stars, micrometeorites, planetoids, photographic plate flaws, and dust?
Celtic micrometeorites like Dylan Thomas and Brendan Behan, who burn brightly and briefly, and very soon rejoin the cosmic dust.
Pinhole penetrations of the black object by micrometeorites should not be much of a problem, since the occulter could be designed to self-seal around small penetrations.
There is the usual gleaming white oversuit-the thermal micrometeorite garment-with the lower legs and overshoes scuffed and stained with Tycho dust.
The first time I saw a man die was when I was nine years old, when a one-in-a-million micrometeorite punched through the helmet faceplate of one of my school teachers while he was leading us on a field trip to the Apollo 17 landing site at Taurus Lithrow.
A steady drizzle of micrometeorites continued to erode the top millimeter or so of its surface, exposing fresh material to trap hydrogen and helium nuclei from the solar wind.