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What is a meteoroid?
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- 1A large icy celestial body located in the Oort Cloud
- 2The remaining fragment of space rock that survives the atmosphere and hits Earth's surface
- 3A streak of light produced when space debris burns up in Earth's atmosphere
- 4A small rocky or metallic fragment traveling through space, derived from asteroids or comets✓
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A small rocky or metallic fragment traveling through space, derived from asteroids or comets
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