Hypertext Webster Gateway: "meteoroid"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Meteoroid \Me"te*or*oid\, n. [Meteor + -oid.] (Astron.)
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.
These bodies [small, solid bodies] before they come
into the air, I call meteoroids. --H. A.
Newton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
meteoroid
n : (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies
that hits the earth's atmosphere
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