UNIVERSE
METEORITES
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Hobba
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Perseids
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Swift-Tuttle
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Shoemaker-Levy 9
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Detailed explanation-1: -El Chaco is the second largest meteorite on Earth, weighing in at almost twice as much as Bacubirito. Plus, it’s just a fragment. A group of meteorites called Campo del Cielo are responsible for the 60 sq km crater field of the same name in Argentina.
Detailed explanation-2: -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. When a meteoroid survives a trip through the atmosphere and hits the ground, it’s called a meteorite.
Detailed explanation-3: -1-Ceres (583.7 miles / 939.4 kilometers) Ceres is the largest asteroid known to date. To give you an idea of the asteroid’s size, it is roughly as big as Alaska, the largest state in the USA.