meteoroid

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Shortly before the uninhabited space station reached orbit in .May 1973,aeroaynamic pressure ripped off a meteoroid and heat shield.
在1973年5月無人空間站到達(dá)軌道前不久，空氣動力壓力扯破了一個流星體和擋熱板。分析：首先，從邏輯上看，說：“空氣動力壓力扯破了一個流星體”，是不合事理的，荒謬可笑的。
When a meteoroid enters the atmosphere of the earth (becoming a meteor), it is actually the speed compressing the air in front of the object that causes it to heat up.
流星體闖入地球的大氣層（變成流星之前）時，由于高速飛行，它的前端與空氣強(qiáng)烈摩擦發(fā)熱。
Turn the globe by just a few hours earlier on that day in June and the meteoroid would have been over the border of Pakistan and India–exactly where everyone was fearing a nuclear attack.
如果六月的這天，地球轉(zhuǎn)動退回到幾小時前，流星降落的地方就正好是巴基斯坦和印度的交界處，世人唯恐發(fā)生核戰(zhàn)的交界地。

Its micro-meteoroid protection is inadequate, so space-walking astronauts will have to install additional shielding, though not until 2004.
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a piece of rock or other matter in space that has not yet entered the earth's atmosphere

any of the small celestial bodies that are thought to orbit the sun, possibly as the remains of comets. When they enter the earth's atmosphere, they become visible as meteors