SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -A meteorite fall, also called an observed fall, is a meteorite collected after its fall from outer space was observed by people or automated devices. Any other meteorite is called a “find". There are more than 1, 300 documented falls listed in widely used databases, most of which have specimens in modern collections.

Detailed explanation-2: -A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space. This phenomenon is called a meteor or “shooting star".

Detailed explanation-3: -"Shooting stars” and “falling stars” are both names that describe meteors–streaks of light across the night sky caused by small bits of interplanetary rock and debris called meteoroids vaporizing high in Earth’s upper atmosphere.