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micrometeorite

Today it means: an extraterrestrial particle, less than a millimeter in size, that has survived entry into the atmosphere without melting Full definition →

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From micro- + meteorite (micro- + meteor + -ite).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.