SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: The Short Answer: Asteroids are smaller than a planet, but they are larger than the pebble-size objects we call meteoroids.

Detailed explanation-2: -A meteoroid is a small piece of asteroid or a comet, typically pebble-sized, but could be a little smaller or a little larger, and often created from a collision.. When a meteoroid gets close to the Earth and enters the Earth’s atmosphere, it’s called a meteor.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Today, we know that impacts continue to occur on Jupiter from time to time, but nothing as large as the SL9 event. A March 5, 1979, event was one of two seen from a space probe. The Voyager team had observed it on the night side of the planet; it appeared as a brief flash. A very small object caused the 1979 event.