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Meteors vs Meteoroid - What's the difference?

meteors | meteoroid |

As nouns the difference between meteors and meteoroid

is that meteors is plural of meteor while meteoroid is a relatively small (sand- to boulder-sized) fragment of debris in a solar system that produces a meteor when it hits the atmosphere.

meteors

English

Noun

(head)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    meteoroid

    English

    (wikipedia meteoroid)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (astronomy) A relatively small (sand- to boulder-sized) fragment of debris in a solar system that produces a meteor when it hits the atmosphere

    • Derived terms

    * micrometeoroid * meteoroidal

    Related terms

    * meteor * meteorite * meteoritic * meteoritics * meteoriticist * meteorology