@ThePlanetaryGuy I hate to be _that_ guy, but it's not a meteorite if there are no fragments recovered. https://t.co/1ryJEBVUl9
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@Jim_intheWeb @cbs_spacenews "A meteoroid is a 10-μm to 1-m-size natural solid object moving in interplanetary space. A micrometeoroid is a meteoroid 10μm to 2mm in size." https://t.co/iblM87eKda
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@avrnz Yes. This one is just a bit too large for a meteoroid at 2 meters. But it is the same sort of thing :). It is a rather arbitrary cut off and the 2 m is estimated, if very reflective it could be 1 m I guess. https://t.co/w6RoAwYFlW
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@peiferlabunc By vague convention, anything smaller than 1 meter is called a meteoroid, larger than 1 meter is an asteroid. But yes, objects this size hit us all the time. https://t.co/rGOlMru8a3