How to Use micrometeoroid in a Sentence
micrometeoroid
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But a micrometeoroid has now taken a swing at the James Webb.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 9 June 2022
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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, 18 July 2022
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Given these two figures, and the bombardment rate by micrometeoroids, the rings must be young, the idea goes.
—Mike Wall, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2019
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The first one, called a deep-field image, is of a patch of sky that, from Earth, is about the equivalent of what would be occluded by a grain of sand—or a micrometeoroid—held out at arm’s length.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
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James Webb space telescope has been hit by a micrometeoroid.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 9 June 2022
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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, 22 June 2017
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These are known as micrometeoroids or simply space dust.
—John Meyer, The Know, 11 Nov. 2019
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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, 17 Sep. 2019
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Every morning, at dawn, the planet is subjected to a spray of micrometeoroids, according to NASA.
—Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2019
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Shortly after announcing that those images would release in July, though, dire news was shared – a micrometeoroid had hit Webb.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 1 Oct. 2022
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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, 26 Nov. 2019
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While the James Webb was damaged by the micrometeoroid, the telescope is still performing beyond expectations.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 21 July 2022
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That’s despite the space observatory last week being struck by a micrometeoroid.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 11 June 2022
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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, 15 July 2022
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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, 15 Oct. 2019
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Currently, very little data exists that describe what effect temperature extremes, lunar dust, micrometeoroids, solar radiation, etc.
—Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2018
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