... note: when out in space they are called meteoroids , when burning up they are called ... It's because meteoroids orbit the Sun in streams. ... The Earth would hit that part of the meteoroid orbit every year at the same time ...
... A meteoroid is any bit of detritus floating around in space, whose path intersects the Earth's. It becomes a meteor when it hits the Earth's atmosphere and burns up. ...
... mission goes for orbital insertion, a meteoroid impact punctures holes in the hull ... Good: When the meteoroid punctures the hull, we don't understand what happens at ...
... A satellite orbiting the Earth can be destroyed by a meteoroid no bigger than a grain of sand if the relative velocities are high enough (though there are other, more complicated effects involved as well). ...