How to Use micrometeoroid in a Sentence

micrometeoroid

noun

• But a micrometeoroid has now taken a swing at the James Webb.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 9 June 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• James Webb space telescope has been hit by a micrometeoroid.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 9 June 2022
• 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
• These are known as micrometeoroids or simply space dust.
  — John Meyer, The Know, 11 Nov. 2019
• 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
• Every morning, at dawn, the planet is subjected to a spray of micrometeoroids, according to NASA.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2019
• 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
• 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
• While the James Webb was damaged by the micrometeoroid, the telescope is still performing beyond expectations.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 21 July 2022
• That’s despite the space observatory last week being struck by a micrometeoroid.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 11 June 2022
• 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
• All of those elements often come from micrometeoroids and deep-space dust particles that are nearly constantly plunging into the upper atmosphere.
  — Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2023
• 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
• Currently, very little data exists that describe what effect temperature extremes, lunar dust, micrometeoroids, solar radiation, etc.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024