UNIVERSE
METEORITES
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Comets
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Meteors
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Asteroids
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Meteroids
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Detailed explanation-1: -Chunks of rock and metal from asteroids and other planetary bodies that survive their journey through the atmosphere and fall to the ground are called meteorites.
Detailed explanation-2: -A meteor is made up of bits of dust and rock that broke away from colliding asteroids, comets, or planets. Most of these chunks of rock and metal burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere and become meteoroids. If they reach Earth’s surface we call them meteorites.
Detailed explanation-3: -Asteroids are left over from the formation of our solar system. Our solar system began about 4.6 billion years ago when a big cloud of gas and dust collapsed.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.