SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -No, meteors do not orbit around the sun. But, like the other celestial bodies such as the asteroids, comets, and planets, meteoroids revolve around the sun.

Detailed explanation-2: -But next time someone asks you for a crazy space fact you’ll know: Jupiter is so massive, it doesn’t orbit the sun.

Detailed explanation-3: -All meteorites come from inside our solar system. Most of them are fragments of asteroids that broke apart long ago in the asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter. Such fragments orbit the Sun for some time–often millions of years–before colliding with Earth.

Detailed explanation-4: -An asteroid is a rocky object that orbits the Sun. Asteroids are smaller than a planet, but they are larger than the pebble-size objects we call meteoroids. Comets are small icy dirtballs that orbit the Sun; comets are made of ice and dust while asteroids are made of rock).

Detailed explanation-5: -Meteoroids are objects in space that range in size from dust grains to small asteroids. Think of them as “space rocks.” 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.