How to Use micrometeoroid in a Sentence

micrometeoroid

noun
  • But a micrometeoroid has now taken a swing at the James Webb.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 9 June 2022
  • Given these two figures, and the bombardment rate by micrometeoroids, the rings must be young, the idea goes.
    — Mike Wall, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2019
  • That’s despite the space observatory last week being struck by a micrometeoroid.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 11 June 2022
  • Since its launch, arguably the roughest luck the James Webb Space Telescope has had is hitting a micrometeoroid the size of a grain of sand.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • Shortly after announcing that those images would release in July, though, dire news was shared – a micrometeoroid had hit Webb.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 1 Oct. 2022
  • The first one, called a deep-field image, is of a patch of sky that, from Earth, is about the equivalent of what would be occluded by a grain of sand—or a micrometeoroid—held out at arm’s length.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • These elements are linked to both processes, indicating that both micrometeoroids and solar wind added to the Moon’s exosphere.
    — Jonathan O’Callaghan, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
  • While the James Webb was damaged by the micrometeoroid, the telescope is still performing beyond expectations.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 21 July 2022
  • All of those elements often come from micrometeoroids and deep-space dust particles that are nearly constantly plunging into the upper atmosphere.
    — Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Most of this material is being delivered by micrometeoroids from the Kuiper belt, a distant source of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Every morning, at dawn, the planet is subjected to a spray of micrometeoroids, according to NASA.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2019
  • However, the study's lead author, Aurélien Crida, disputes that, citing the bombardment rate of tiny meteorites (known as micrometeoroids) and the weight of the rings.
    — Fox News, 17 Sep. 2019
  • This suit is a complex system that provides oxygen and water, regulates temperature and pressure, and shields the wearer from micrometeoroids and radiation.
    — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
  • An important question is whether the spacecraft was unlucky to have been hit by such a high energy micrometeoroid, whether the spacecraft is more susceptible than had been thought or whether these objects are more common than expected.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2022
  • Roscosmos blamed these leaks on impacts from micrometeoroids or orbital debris, which NASA publicly accepted.
    — Jess Thomson, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
  • By using computer modeling, researchers demonstrated that micrometeoroids striking the rings are vaporized on impact, leaving little to no dark residue behind.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
  • This time around, his training was more intensive — involving preparation and contingency work for deep-space issues like high radiation, micrometeoroids and orbital debris.
    — Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The new suit is also slightly sleeker, allowing a greater range of motion while still protecting the astronauts from radiation, temperature extremes, and micrometeoroids.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Scientists had speculated that either micrometeoroids were to blame or solar wind hitting the lunar surface transferred energy into particles and ejected them upward in a process called sputtering.
    — Jonathan O’Callaghan, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
  • On those lengthy missions, the top risk to the spacecraft and its crew will be potential damage from collisions with space debris or micrometeoroids, small fragments of rock and dust coming toward Earth from the Solar System.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 6 May 2024
  • Currently, very little data exists that describe what effect temperature extremes, lunar dust, micrometeoroids, solar radiation, etc.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The Apollo landers and the Apollo rovers are still sitting on the lunar surface and have been probably bombarded by micrometeoroids, space dust flying around, definitely bombarded by radiation from the sun and cosmic sources.
    — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2024

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