We had a micrometeorite collecting package on board.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romanian Group Attempts Moon Mission With Giant Balloon | Universe Today] Reference

The frog and flower are from the National Wildlife Service; the micrometeorite from NASA.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference

Sandpapered by eons of micrometeorite infall, most of the Moon's mountains looked tired and old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empire Builders]

As long as it retains structural strength, microcracks and micrometeorite holes make no significant difference.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference

Data flows informed her that a micrometeorite had pierced the platform, damaging Drop Troopers in their Sleep Pods.    From Wordnik.com.  [365 tomorrows » 2009 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference

For lack of evidence to the contrary, for instance, neither bird strikes nor micrometeorite impacts could be completely ruled out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Columbia's Last Flight] Reference

Its oversize wire-mesh tires and independent suspension were usually enough to take on rocks and micrometeorite craters, which meant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

Steve's initial microscopic analysis didn't find any fossils, but he did find a micrometeorite and there are more samples yet to examine.    From Wordnik.com.  [MDRS-88 sol 4: Mr. Fix-It] Reference

The longer a crew is out, the greater the chance of getting hit by a micrometeorite (leading to the boiling-saliva-off-your-tongue thing).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ultimate Thrill Ride] Reference

"I can program an internal alarm to sound if voltage fluctuations exceed normal micrometeorite impact levels, sir, but it'll take me a few minutes.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

Thus, micrometeorite bombardment is an extremely important piece of the rings 'evolutionary puzzle because these impurities cause them to darken over time.    From Wordnik.com.  [SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Paul Estrada -- From Dust to Planets] Reference

Here was a place that a micrometeorite might have struck, there, that a flake of rock face might have scaled away from the effects of alternating baking and freezing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

OK, it's wasteful: but it does mean that when a micrometeorite hits the life support computer, you can use the geological analyser to take over without loss of reliability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Environmentally Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Computing] Reference

I even thought maybe a micrometeorite hit the air tank, but when I started figuring out the angle it would've had to come in, it would've had to come up out of the ground! '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moonwar]

Vanguard 1 with its small suite of instruments provided unprecedented information on Earth's size and shape, air density and temperature ranges, and the micrometeorite density in space.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanguard 1] Reference

The scientific instruments onboard the Mariner spacecraft were two radiometers microwave and infrared, a micrometeorite sensor, a solar plasma sensor, a charged particle sensor, and a magnetometer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dry Spacecraft | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference

Then on Friday, the shuttle will be inspected for any signs of micrometeorite damage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edmonton Sun] Reference

The tiny rock, known as MM40, is the first achondritic basaltic micrometeorite ever found on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Universe Today] Reference

Atlantis 'heat shield for any micrometeorite damage that might have occurred during the past 1 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [CTV News RSS Feed] Reference

Researchers have previously suggested that small moons have been eroded away by micrometeorite impacts.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Space] Reference

Imaging of the satellite could possibly show damage from a micrometeorite hit or perhaps a bent antenna.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Then on Friday, one day before departing, the shuttle will be inspected for any signs of micrometeorite damage.    From Wordnik.com.  [WTVM - 1- WTVM Home] Reference

But NASA spacewalk planners take the micrometeorite environment into account when scheduling excursions, he added.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPACE.com] Reference

NASA wants the shuttle astronauts to inspect their ship for any signs of micrometeorite damage before they depart.    From Wordnik.com.  [News for Richmond Times-Dispatch] Reference

All of these unnatural structures appear to have sustained varying degrees of damage from meteorite and micrometeorite impact.    From Wordnik.com.  [totse.com] Reference

The astronauts will use a 100-foot, laser-tipped boom to inspect Discovery's heat shield for any signs of micrometeorite damage.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

NASA is keeping the shuttle docked an extra day to move up a survey of the wings and nose, a routine search for micrometeorite damage.    From Wordnik.com.  [WSOCTV.com - Local News] Reference

The clearance was granted after experts analyzed wing and nose images beamed down by the crew in one final sweep for micrometeorite damage.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

I interpret the major cubic pattern as reflections off rebar and micrometeorite-frosted glass of the dome that covers most of Mare Crisium.    From Wordnik.com.  [totse.com] Reference

NASA is keeping the shuttle docked an extra day in order to move up a survey of the wings and nose, a routine search for micrometeorite damage.    From Wordnik.com.  [10News.com - Local News] Reference

The shuttle astronauts quickly got started on an evening of surveying to check for any signs of micrometeorite damage and make sure their ship can return safely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Headlines - ABC 7 News] Reference

But the windows facing along the direction the outpost is orbiting will need to be closed, except during robotic operations, to protect against a micrometeorite strike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Once they arrived, the compounds could have moved all over the lunar surface - liberated from the dirt by micrometeorite strikes or solar heating - until they hit a cold trap like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

Panes that get dinged by micrometeorite or space debris.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

It's set to trigger a proximity alarm for anything bigger than a micrometeorite. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

'So it wasn't a micrometeorite.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moonwar]

A routine search for micrometeorite damage.    From Wordnik.com.  [statesman.com - Highschool] Reference