meteoroid
noun
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.
meteoroidal
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a word derived from
meteoroid.
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Based on this, the team hypothesized that the asteroid could have been ejected from the lunar surface as a result of a meteoroidal impact.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2023
