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Definitions of micrometeorite in various dictionaries:
noun - a meteorite or meteoroid so small that it drifts down to earth without becoming intensely heated in the atmosphere
A tiny particle of meteoric dust, especially one of many that fall to the surface of the earth or moon.
MICROMETEORITE - A micrometeorite is essentially a micrometeoroid that has survived entry through Earth's atmosphere. The size of such a particle ranges from 50 µm t...
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| A tiny particle of meteoric dust, especially one of many that fall to the surface of the earth or moon. |
| a meteorite or meteoroid so small that it drifts down to earth without becoming intensely heated in the atmosphere |
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| A micrometeorite is essentially a micrometeoroid that has survived entry through Earth's atmosphere. The size of such a particle ranges from 50 µm to 2 mm. Usually found on Earth's surface, micrometeorites differ from meteorites in that they are smaller in size, more abundant, and different in composition. They are a subset of cosmic dust, which also includes the smaller interplanetary dust particles (IDPs).Micrometeorites enter Earth's atmosphere at high velocities (at least 11 km/s) and undergo heating through atmospheric friction and compression. Micrometeorites individually weigh between 109 and 104 g and collectively comprise most of the extraterrestrial material that has come to the present-day Earth.Fred Lawrence Whipple first coined the term "micro-meteorite" to describe dust-sized objects that fall to the Earth. Sometimes meteoroids and micrometeoroids entering the Earth's atmosphere are visible as meteors or "shooting stars", whether or not they reach the ground and survive a |