meteoroid

English

Noun

Wikipedia meteoroid (plural meteoroids)

1. (astronomy) A relatively small (sand- to boulder-sized) fragment of debris in a solar system that produces a meteor when it hits the atmosphere

Related terms

• meteorite
• meteorology

Translations

small debris in a solar system

• Arabic: نيزك (ar) (nayzak)
• Esperanto: meteoroido (eo)
• Finnish: meteoroidi (fi)
• Icelandic: reikisteinn (is) m, geimsteinn (is) m, geimgrýti (is) n

• Persian: شهاب‌وار (fa) (šahâb-vâr), نیزک (fa) (neyzak)
• Polish: meteoroid (pl)
• Portuguese: meteoróide (pt) m
• Spanish: meteoroide (es) m