How to Use micrometeorite in a Sentence

micrometeorite

noun

• On top of that, there are micrometeorites that come in on the moon.
  — Sydney Pereira, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2017
• At first, it was thought that a micrometeorite may have collided with the craft.
  — Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2018
• The leak itself is a small hole two millimeters wide, and NASA suspects it was caused by a small micrometeorite punching a hole in the wall.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2018
• The not-so-great balls of fire—now the oldest micrometeorites ever found—started out as hunks of mostly iron and nickel.
  — Andrew Tomkins, National Geographic, 11 May 2016
• The not-so-great balls of fire—now the oldest micrometeorites ever found—started out as hunks of mostly iron and nickel.
  — National Geographic, 11 May 2016
• Last year, a micrometeorite shot right through the station’s robotic arm, leaving a bullet-sized hole.
  — Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2022
• The solar wind, micrometeorite impacts, even thermal stress from the Moon's day/night cycle, all will weather away this crater.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2011
• Because there’s only the one hole, that rules out a micrometeorite or some natural cause.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 26 Dec. 2018
• Its main job is to keep the craft from being punctured by micrometeorites like an expensive balloon.
  — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 23 Oct. 2007
• Or they could be locked safely away in glass beads forged during micrometeorite impacts.
  — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 27 Oct. 2020
• Limestone would be dense enough to protect these micrometeorites from water and weather for billions of years.
  — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2016
• Most of these molecules are likely stored in the voids between moon dust and other particles or entombed in the glassy residue of of micrometeorite impacts.
  — Marcia Dunn, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Oct. 2020
• This shroud might solve one of the most worrisome issues faced by JWST: micrometeorite strikes have dinged and dented its large exposed mirror.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 6 Dec. 2023
• Moreover, if there are so many micrometeorites intersecting with the space station's orbit, why is the outpost not riddled with holes?
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2023
• Over perhaps a billion years, a drizzle of tiny micrometeorites hitting the moon will dissolve the boulders into finer soils called regolith.
  — Quanta Magazine, 17 Jan. 2019
• The rapid melting and cooling caused by micrometeorite impacts on the regolith creates small globs of glassy material.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 May 2022
• Moon dirt is full of tiny, glass fragments from micrometeorite impacts that got everywhere in the Apollo lunar landers and wore down the moonwalkers’ spacesuits.
  — Marcia Dunn, Orlando Sentinel, 12 May 2022
• Moon dirt is full of tiny, glass fragments from micrometeorite impacts that got everywhere in the Apollo lunar landers and wore down the moonwalkers' spacesuits.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 13 May 2022
• The surface is hit by micrometeorites and radiation, with no atmosphere to protect it.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 Apr. 2020
• An external impact likely means either a micrometeorite or small fragment of orbital debris must have struck the Progress spacecraft.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2023
• Russian engineers eventually declared that a micrometeorite had struck the external cooling loop of the spacecraft and deemed it unsafe to fly home.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2023
• Heat from the sun or micrometeorite impacts could cause hydroxyl molecules to collide to form H2O, Honniball says.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, National Geographic, 26 Oct. 2020
• The planet is constantly bombarded by stuff from space, including a daily deluge of micrometeorites and a shower of radiation from the sun and more-distant stars.
  — Wired, 20 Jan. 2019
• These were compared to micrometeorites that have been recovered in Antarctica.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 Sep. 2019
• To investigate the rocky space rain, Heck and his colleagues collected samples of micrometeorites more than 466 million years old from rock formations in the St. Petersburg region of Russia.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 Jan. 2017
• To investigate the rocky space rain, Heck and his colleagues collected samples of micrometeorites more than 466 million years old from rock formations in the St. Petersburg region of Russia.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 Jan. 2017
• In reality, the regolith is made of rocks that have been ground up into a fine material over many years under the bombardment of micrometeorites and solar wind radiation.
  — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 19 July 2019
• Bennu's youngest constituents will be minerals and compounds altered by micrometeorite impacts, cosmic rays and solar flares.
  — Dante S. Lauretta, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2016
• According to the Times, 3-D printing the houses from the moon's own surface materials would allow the dwellings to withstand the moon's extreme temperature swings and toxic combination of micrometeorites and radiation.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 10 Oct. 2023
• Polar regions, such as Greenland and Antarctica, that are covered with ice year-round are hot spots for micrometeorite research because of their geographical isolation and stasis.
  — Sarah Derouin, Scientific American, 29 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024