That is potentially possible with a micrometeoroid hit or something like that.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2002] Reference

As I mentioned, the suit is even designed with protection from micrometeoroid debris.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2002] Reference

Time permitting, they will also inspect a chip on a handrail which may have been caused by a micrometeoroid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astronauts go for a Long Walk] Reference

NASA also understands more about the hazards of micrometeoroid and orbital debris, and how to process the numbers, Shannon said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hubble shuttle flight faces higher space junk risk] Reference

The astronauts have removed and repositioned external brackets, handrails, micrometeoroid shields, computer and electrical connections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tranquility Module Formally Handed over to NASA from ESA | Universe Today] Reference

The PSPT layer was for micrometeoroid protection, a final fail-safe for the station in case the station-keeping deflectors went off-line.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE FALL OF TEROK NOR] Reference

Among other maintenance tasks, they were there to investigatedamagetoan external handrail ofthe ISS that may have been caused by a micrometeoroid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cosmic Projectiles] Reference

I mean completely authentic Mark III H-1s with single axis rolling convolute waist joints, and vintage Skylab A7Ls with micrometeoroid cover layers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spacing Out A Bit: Chicago And The Shuttle] Reference

‘Leonardo’ will be permanently attached on the current last flight, STS 133, after beefing up the outside to provide extra micrometeoroid debris protection for the module.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Would NASA Do with an Added Shuttle Flight? | Universe Today] Reference

And between that pressure bladder on the outside on the overall suit, there are about seven layers of a combination of insulation, micrometeoroid protection and that sort of thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2002] Reference

On the outside she remained a hundred-meter spheroid, its smoothness broken by airlocks, hatches, boat bays, instrument housings, communications boom, grapples, and micrometeoroid pocks that had.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inconstant Star]

"Next week the SSRMS (Space Station Remote Manipulator System) will be used for an outside inspection of what appears to be a "dent" in the Lab module's exterior surface, specifically in the MM/OD (micrometeoroid/orbital debris) shielding surrounding the pressure shell.".    From Wordnik.com.  [NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: November 2004 Archives] Reference

And the reason they picked this distance is it's a safe distance away, but it's also close enough that if in that late inspection they find that they got dinged by a micrometeoroid or something which pierces the heat shield, and they've got trouble, they can get back to the space station and stay there for a while if need be and wait for a rescue mission.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 19, 2007] Reference

Anderson meanwhile began retrieving some micrometeoroid shields from the Quest airlock's exterior to put them inside.    From Wordnik.com.  [SpaceRef Top Stories] Reference

Scientists believe that the faint ring arcs likely consist of material knocked off the small moons by micrometeoroid impacts.    From Wordnik.com.  [msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines] Reference

On that occasion competing gloves weren't required to have thermal/micrometeoroid outers, just the inner pressure-tight layer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Register] Reference

Endeavour will deliver more spare parts, including communications antennas, a high-pressure gas tank, and micrometeoroid debris shields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philadelphia Business News - Local Philadelphia News | The Philadelphia Business Journal] Reference

Scientists believe the faint ring arcs from Anthe and Methone likely consist of material knocked off these small moons by micrometeoroid impacts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

Competitors had to develop a complete glove, including an outer, thermal-micrometeoroid-protection layer and an inner, pressure-restraining layer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Money Times - finance news, lifestyle, markets, investment, personal finance, banking, retirement planning] Reference

STS-134 will carry "spare parts including two S-band communications antennas, a high-pressure gas tank, additional spare parts for Dextre and micrometeoroid debris shields".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Register] Reference

Endeavour will deliver spare parts including two S-band communications antennas, a high-pressure gas tank, additional spare parts for Dextre and micrometeoroid debris shields.    From Wordnik.com.  [tcpalm.com Stories] Reference

After the docking, the station was reoriented as planned to minimize the risk of micrometeoroid/debris impacts upon the Shuttle (- XVV = - x-axis in velocity vector, +z-axis in local vertical).    From Wordnik.com.  [SpaceRef Top Stories] Reference

Tasks that were deferred from Sunday's spacewalk because of the problem included the fluid connections to the ammonia tank and retrieval of two micrometeoroid debris shields for return to Earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

Using a laser scanner and camera on the end of a 50-foot extension to the shuttle's robot arm, the astronauts planned to look for signs of any micrometeoroid impact damage that might have occurred since an identical inspection the day after launch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference