Helion (meteoroid)
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Helion
Helion may refer to:*Helion , helium nucleus*Helion *Hélion de Villeneuve , medieval knight*Jean Hélion , French painter*Helion Lodge*Helion, character in John C. Wright's trilogy The Golden Age...

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A Helion meteoroid
Meteoroid
A meteoroid is a sand- to boulder-sized particle of debris in the Solar System. The visible path of a meteoroid that enters Earth's atmosphere is called a meteor, or colloquially a shooting star or falling star. If a meteoroid reaches the ground and survives impact, then it is called a meteorite...

 is a meteoroid that arrives from the approximate direction of the Sun. They are thought to originate as debris from sun-grazing comets.
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