How to Use micrometeoroid in a Sentence

micrometeoroid

noun
  • These are known as micrometeoroids or simply space dust.
    — John Meyer, The Know, 2019-11-11
  • But a micrometeoroid has now taken a swing at the James Webb.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2022-06-09
  • Given these two figures, and the bombardment rate by micrometeoroids, the rings must be young, the idea goes.
    — Mike Wall, Scientific American, 2019-09-17
  • That’s despite the space observatory last week being struck by a micrometeoroid.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 2022-06-11
  • One of the telescope’s 18 hexagonal mirrors took a nasty strike from a micrometeoroid, but that had limited impact.
    — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 2024-07-12
  • What works in Webb's favor is the micro part of micrometeoroid: even at high speed, the particles don't have the mass to do catastrophic damage.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 2017-06-22
  • Since its launch, arguably the roughest luck the James Webb Space Telescope has had is hitting a micrometeoroid the size of a grain of sand.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 2022-07-18
  • All of those elements often come from micrometeoroids and deep-space dust particles that are nearly constantly plunging into the upper atmosphere.
    — Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 2023-12-12
  • Most of this material is being delivered by micrometeoroids from the Kuiper belt, a distant source of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune.
    — Quanta Magazine, 2019-11-26
  • Every morning, at dawn, the planet is subjected to a spray of micrometeoroids, according to NASA.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 2019-11-09
  • However, the study's lead author, Aurélien Crida, disputes that, citing the bombardment rate of tiny meteorites (known as micrometeoroids) and the weight of the rings.
    — Fox News, 2019-09-17
  • An important question is whether the spacecraft was unlucky to have been hit by such a high energy micrometeoroid, whether the spacecraft is more susceptible than had been thought or whether these objects are more common than expected.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 2022-07-15
  • This time around, his training was more intensive — involving preparation and contingency work for deep-space issues like high radiation, micrometeoroids and orbital debris.
    — Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 2024-10-03
  • The new suit is also slightly sleeker, allowing a greater range of motion while still protecting the astronauts from radiation, temperature extremes, and micrometeoroids.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2019-10-15
  • On those lengthy missions, the top risk to the spacecraft and its crew will be potential damage from collisions with space debris or micrometeoroids, small fragments of rock and dust coming toward Earth from the Solar System.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 2024-05-06
  • The Apollo landers and the Apollo rovers are still sitting on the lunar surface and have been probably bombarded by micrometeoroids, space dust flying around, definitely bombarded by radiation from the sun and cosmic sources.
    — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 2024-01-31

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