SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Meteorites are fragments of asteroids, comets, moons, and planets that survive the heated journey through Earth’s atmosphere all the way to the ground. Most meteorites found on Earth are pebble to fist size, but some are larger than a building.

Detailed explanation-2: -Meteoroids are lumps of rock or iron that orbit the sun, just as planets, asteroids, and comets do.

Detailed explanation-3: -Meteoroids are what we call “space rocks” that range in size from dust grains to small asteroids. This term only applies when they’re in space. Most are pieces of other, larger bodies that have been broken or blasted off. Some come from comets, others from asteroids, and some even come from the Moon and other planets.

Detailed explanation-4: -A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object, such as a comet, asteroid, or meteoroid, that originates in outer space and survives its passage through the atmosphere to reach the surface of a planet or moon.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.