Crossword-Solution: METEOROID
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Meteoroid | n. | A small body moving through space, or revolving about the sun, which on entering the earth's atmosphere would be deflagrated and appear as a meteor. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “METEOROID”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Potential shooting star | 1 answer |
| Small rock in space | 1 answer |
| Small space traveler | 1 answer |
| Space rock, maybe | 1 answer |
| Space traveler. | 12 answers |
| ANY OF THE SMALL SOLID EXTRATERRESTRIAL BODIES THAT HITS THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE | 12 answers |
| celestial body | 43 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with METEOROID (5)
The earth meets 7,500,000 little bodies every day--there is collision--the little meteoroid gives out its lightning sign of extinction, and, consumed in fervent heat, drops to the earth as gas or dust.
Its relatively low cost has made it a popular choice for many satellite programs, including Transit navigation satellites, the Small Astronomy and Small Scientific Satellites, the Beacon Explorer, Hawkeye, Micrometeoroid, Meteoroid Technology, and Solrad satellites.
The heat thus developed is sufficient to raise the meteoroid and the air around it to incandescence, and in most cases either to cause the meteoroid to burn up, or to dissipate it as vapor.
When a meteoroid is large enough and refractory enough to resist the heat to which it is exposed, its motion is sufficiently arrested, on entering the lower layers of our atmosphere, to cause it to fall to the earth.
With a velocity of forty-four miles a second in our atmosphere, a meteoroid would therefore be exposed to a temperature of between three and four million degrees.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1999–2015).