How to Use meteoroid in a Sentence

meteoroid

noun
  • Our hype glances off it and does less than the tiniest meteoroid.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2026
  • But meteoroids make up for their small size with high velocities.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Mar. 2010
  • Such impacts can excavate craters tens of feet across, even from meteoroids weighing just a few pounds.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Sure, the James Webb being struck by a meteoroid isn’t ideal.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 9 June 2022
  • Maybe that comet broke apart, and some of the pieces became the meteoroids that make up the Quadrantid stream.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Tiny meteoroids are likely to blame for these Martian metals.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 13 Apr. 2017
  • Too small to be called planets, asteroids are rocky chunks that also orbit our sun along with the space rocks known as meteoroids.
    — National Geographic, 27 Mar. 2019
  • Cooke estimated the meteoroid was about 1 to 2 yards across and weighed more than a metric ton.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 17 Jan. 2018
  • While very small meteoroids are common, larger ones – bigger than a dishwasher – are not.
    — Brian Elbing, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2024
  • If an asteroid or meteoroid does not burn up before impact, it is called a meteorite.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 9 Mar. 2021
  • In these streams, even the largest meteoroids—the technical term for the solid bits of rock—tend to be small, only about the size of a grain of sand.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2023
  • What is a meteor, a meteoroid and a meteorite?
    — Gillian Stawiszynski, Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The meteoroids slam into the atmosphere at high speeds and vaporize.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 13 Apr. 2017
  • This means the meteoroid (the solid part ramming through our atmosphere) was of a decent size (like a beachball, maybe?
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2012
  • When meteoroids, or space rocks, enter Earth's atmosphere at high speed and burn up, they are called meteors.
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 12 Nov. 2025
  • In 2019, the company lost a unit after three years due to what was either a meteoroid or a wiring flaw.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The new method led to a classification system that ranks a meteoroid's hardness.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 17 June 2026
  • When the meteoroids hit the surface at those shallow angles, some of each meteoroid would shear itself off and move down range from the impact site.
    — Liz Kruesi, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2017
  • Though lunar impacts have become less frequent over time, tiny meteoroids still create dents in the Moon every day.
    — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Astronomers then confirmed the meteoroid was poised to hit Earth in France in the early morning local time.
    — PCMAG, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Scientists think the meteoroid may have measured 16 to 39 feet.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Hundreds of millions of meteoroids, many of them the size of sand grains, enter Earth’s atmosphere every day.
    — Barry Lopez, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
  • But a couple of pages later, his capsule encounters a meteoroid which explodes nearby.
    — Neil Oseman, Space.com, 14 June 2026
  • Even a tiny meteor that burned up in our atmosphere sent an alarming meteoroid arcing across the Michigan sky a few days ago.
    — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2018
  • Other remnants of the meteoroid's impact landed 23 miles away.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Some astronomers believe that there might be a sparse stream of meteoroids which Earth might encounter during the final week of April.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Meteor showers occur when Earth passes through a dense stream of meteoroids left behind by a comet's orbit.
    — Amanda Castro hannah Parry anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Not long after this, the meteoroid broke apart, raining down small meteorites onto the ground which were later found spread over the countryside .
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2012
  • Usually, the meteoroid itself vaporizes high above the ground.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 12 June 2026
  • Shooting stars are meteors, meteoroids that light up when small rock particles burn up in Earth’s atmosphere.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024

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