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- Meteors and Meteorites: Facts - NASA ScienceMeteoroids. Meteoroids are space rocks that range in size from dust grains to small asteroids. This term only applies when these rocks while they are still in space. Most meteoroids are pieces of other, larger bodies that have been broken or blasted off.
- Ten Facts About Meteors - NASATen Facts About Meteors. A meteor shower occurs when the Earth passes through the trail of debris left by a comet or asteroid. Meteors are bits of rocks and ice ejected from comets as they move in their orbits about the sun. A meteor that reaches the ground it is called a meteorite.
- Massive fireball lights up night sky across large swath of U.S.February 22, 2024 / 9:21 AM EST / CBS News. A glittering fireball ignited evening skies over vast sections of the eastern United States and parts of Canada on Wednesday night, as it entered earth...
- Meteoroid - WikipediaA meteoroid shown entering the atmosphere, causing a visible meteor and hitting the Earth's surface, becoming a meteorite. A meteoroid ( / ˈmiːtiərɔɪd / MEE-tee-ə-royd) [1] is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space . Meteoroids are distinguished as objects significantly smaller than asteroids, ranging in size from grains to objects ...
- Meteors and Meteorites - NASA ScienceMeteors: When meteoroids enter Earth’s atmosphere (or that of another planet, like Mars) at high speed and burn up, the fireballs or “shooting stars” are called meteors. Meteorites: When a meteoroid survives a trip through the atmosphere and hits the ground, it’s called a meteorite.
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