NOUN
- a meteorite or meteoroid so small that it drifts down to earth without becoming intensely heated in the atmosphere
How To Use micrometeor In A Sentence
- Station micrometeorology produces complex effects on surface temperatures, however, and, as we show in this paper, attempting to correct the errors with existing adjustment methods artificially forces toward regional representativeness and cannot be expected to recover all of the trend information that would have been obtained locally from a well-sited station. A Second Look at USHCN Classification « Climate Audit
- From my reading of the evidence, ozone fluctuations, as with global temperature fluctuations, are a product of solar variation - though in the case of Antarctica some scientists also implicate micrometeorites.
- The cosmic dust detector recorded two micrometeoroid showers in September and December.
- Signals-and-detection was getting a lot of routine stuff -- Van Allen count, micrometeor count, surface temperature, gravitation-field strength, radar and scanner echoes. Space Viking
- Ask me sometime how they keep it from hazing with normal cosmic dust and micrometeorites.
- the detected micrometeoritic material
- Currently, I am finishing a textbook on micrometeorology. Archive 2008-02-01
- The first volume, as the introductional chapter states, deals with the main contributions of micrometeorology to ecology in terms of a matrix where mechanisms, processes and states are used against air, plants and soil. 1. Air pollution and agriculture.
- He or she points out that the shuttle would be less exposed to micrometeoroids and orbital debris at the altitude of Hubble than at the lower altitude of the space station.
- The passive mirrors just keep on reflecting, as there is as yet no evidence of damage from dust or micrometeorites.