SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Meteoroids are what we call “space rocks” that range in size from dust grains to small asteroids. This term only applies when they’re in space. Most are pieces of other, larger bodies that have been broken or blasted off. Some come from comets, others from asteroids, and some even come from the Moon and other planets.

Detailed explanation-2: -In simplest terms, a meteorite is a rock that falls to Earth from space. The vast majority of meteorites are pieces of asteroids, the small rocky bodies that orbit the Sun mostly between Mars and Jupiter.

Detailed explanation-3: -Meteoroids are lumps of rock or iron that orbit the sun. Most meteoroids are small fragments of rock created by asteroid collisions. Comets also create meteoroids as they orbit the sun and shed dust and debris.

Detailed explanation-4: -Many meteoroids are formed from the collision of asteroids, which orbit the sun between the paths of Mars and Jupiter in a region called the asteroid belt. As asteroids smash into each other, they produce crumbly debris-meteoroids.

Detailed explanation-5: -Meteoroids are small rock pieces that revolve around the Sun. They are usually made up of dust, ice particles and gases. Some meteoroids enter the Earth’s atmosphere with a great velocity.