"I'm passing through a distinct layer - looks like meteoric debris - something exciting must have happened back then - I hope we can date it - wow!"
He might still be unnoticed, however, for occasional bits of meteoric debris would pass any fielding system.
Some solar systems contain more asteroidal and meteoric debris than did ours of Sol, others less, but few if any have none at all.
The matter shield, the one we keep on for any meteoric debris, for anything, at high velocity in normspace . . . that set up the force field against the radiation.
It is not formed of meteoric debris, but of sophisticated spaceships whose pattern of mattermission staging provides the formation with its typical configuration.
Energy is blaming both events on random meteoric debris.
Pluto, nearer the cloud than Earth and shielded by less atmosphere, is far more vulnerable to hammering by meteoric debris.
Another miss... then a hit, though an incomplete hit that leaves a 100-kiloeram chunk of meteoric debris and a large amount of gravel still on a vector which wUl impact in my general vicinity within the next 1.75 minutes.
"I have the data you wanted on the meteoric debris, sir," Naraht said to Spock, drawing himself up to his full height in an approximation of "attention."