estraterrestrial body

Definitions of estraterrestrial body

1. noun

   a natural object existing outside the earth and outside the earth's atmosphere
   synonyms: extraterrestrial object

   types:

   comet

   (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit

   meteor

   (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere

   meteorite

   any piece of a solid space object that entered Earth's atmosphere and landed on Earth's surface

   meteor swarm

   a group of meteoroids with similar paths

   type of:

   natural object

   an object occurring naturally; not made by man