SOLAR SYSTEM

UNIVERSE

SOLAR STRUCTURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
An object that enters Earth’s atmosphere is a ____
A
asteroid
B
comet
C
meteor
D
rocket
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -A meteoroid or meteorite. Any atmospheric phenomenon, as precipitation, lightning, or a rainbow. A fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth’s atmosphere: A shooting star or falling star.

Detailed explanation-3: -Some people call them shooting stars. Those meteors are burning up in the mesosphere. The meteors make it through the exosphere and thermosphere without much trouble because those layers don’t have much air. But when they hit the mesosphere, there are enough gases to cause friction and create heat.

Detailed explanation-4: -An estimated 25 million meteoroids, micrometeoroids and other space debris enter Earth’s atmosphere each day, which results in an estimated 15, 000 tonnes of that material entering the atmosphere each year.

Detailed explanation-5: -Complete answer: Many meteorites are formed from a collision of asteroids that rotate around the sun between the tracks of Mars and Jupiter in the region called the asteroid belt. As asteroids break into each other, they produce loose debris-meteoroids.

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