Sentence examples for meteoroid from inspiring English sources

This would probably have been the fate of the 6 metre 2004 FU162 spotted on March 31st, 2004, just hours before the meteoroid whizzed by a mere 6,500 kilometres from Earth, setting a new record for the closest observed near miss.Many celestial objects still pass unnoticed, though people are getting better at espying them.

Unexpectedly, about 16 hours before 2012 DA14 made its closest approach to Earth, a previously undetected meteoroid about 19 m in diameter and weighing some 12,000 metric tons entered Earth's atmosphere near Chelyabinsk in Siberia, Russia, producing a fireball brighter than the morning Sun.

The meteoroid exploded in a flash of light, and the cloud trail that it left behind stretched across the sky.

In January 1991, for example, an Apollo asteroid (or, as an alternative description, a large meteoroid) with an estimated diameter of 10 metres (33 feet) passed by Earth within less than half the distance to the Moon.

In that narrower meaning, meteoroid is usually linked with the terms meteor, meteorite, or both.

Smaller than the observed asteroids and comets are the meteoroids (see meteor and meteoroid), lumps of stony or metallic material believed to be mostly fragments of asteroids and comets.

Its micro-meteoroid protection is inadequate, so space-walking astronauts will have to install additional shielding, though not until 2004.

Some satellite developers are beginning to design spacecraft so that sensitive instruments are located towards the back of the satellite to minimise any risk of impact damage, and the side facing away from earth is shielded to protect it from meteoroids.

Particles (known as meteoroids) that come from interplanetary space, on the other hand, are natural.SPADUS detects dust particles using two thin sensor layers, stacked 20cm apart, with the uppermost layer exposed to the messy wastes of space.

Impacts on planetary surfaces by falling meteoroids, asteroids, and cometary bodies are periodic but are capable of generating landforms of mountainous proportions.

Subsequent bombardment by Neptune-orbiting debris and by meteoroids from interplanetary space may have further altered their sizes, shapes, and orbits.