meteoroid

meteoroid
/mee"tee euh royd'/, n. Astron.
any of the small bodies, often remnants of comets, traveling through space: when such a body enters the earth's atmosphere it is heated to luminosity and becomes a meteor.
[1860-65; METEOR + -OID]

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