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Detailed explanation-1: -A meteor is what happens when a meteoroid – a small piece of an asteroid or comet – burns up upon entering Earth’s atmosphere, creating a streak of light in the sky.

Detailed explanation-2: -The smallest meteorites, called micrometeorites, range in size from a few hundred micrometres (m) to as small as about 10 m and come from the population of tiny particles that fill interplanetary space (see interplanetary dust particle).

Detailed explanation-3: -Complete answer: Many meteorites are formed from a collision of asteroids that rotate around the sun between the tracks of Mars and Jupiter in the region called the asteroid belt. As asteroids break into each other, they produce loose debris-meteoroids.

Detailed explanation-4: -The most common meteorites to fall on Earth are called chondrites. These are stony meteorites that contain small balls of stony material called chondrules that are about a millimeter (1/25 inch) across. You need to break open the meteorite to see the chondrules.