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what is difference between meteors and meteorites?

 A meteor is a piece of iron or rock that is falling through the earth's atmosphere from space. It is called a meteorite when it lands on the earth's surface. A meteor is much bigger in size than a meteorite as much of the meteor burns off in the earth's atmosphere, creating the visible "shooting star" in the sky. Meteorites are different sizes and shapes. The largest meteorite ever discovered was in 1920 in South Africa. It weighed about 50 tons.

A meteor is produced when a meteoroid (a solid object between the size of a grain of sand and 10 metres wide), enters the earth's atmosphere at an altitude of 75km - 100km.

Meteoroids travel in variety of orbits and speeds around the sun. They can enter the earth's atmosphere at speeds ranging from 11 km/s to 72 km/s.

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 A meteor is a piece of iron or rock that is falling through the earth's atmosphere from space. It is called a meteorite when it lands on the earth's surface. A meteor is much bigger in size than a meteorite as much of the meteor burns off in the earth's atmosphere, creating the visible "shooting star" in the sky. Meteorites are different sizes and shapes. The largest meteorite ever discovered was in 1920 in South Africa. It weighed about 50 tons.

 

A meteor is produced when a meteoroid (a solid object between the size of a grain of sand and 10 metres wide), enters the earth's atmosphere at an altitude of 75km - 100km.

Meteoroids travel in variety of orbits and speeds around the sun. They can enter the earth's atmosphere at speeds ranging from 11 km/s to 72 km/s.


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 small pieces/particles of comets that are on collision course with the earth are called meteroids. When meteroids enter the earth's surface, they are called meteors

Meteoroid is piece of cosmic debris.Meteor when it enters Earth's atmosphere and a meteorite if it survives and hits the ground.

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Astronomers call "shooting stars" meteors. They are small bits of "dust" from space that burn up in the atmosphere. A meteorite is a piece of rock or other material from space that actually lands on Earth.

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Meteor - A meteoroid that is observed as it burns up in the Earth’s atmosphere – a shooting star.
Meteorite - A meteoroid that survives its passage through the Earth’s atmosphere and impacts the Earth’s surface.
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Meteors are commanly know as sooting stars.it is a small object that entets earth surface.
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Meteors are those rocks which roams freely in the space. Meteorites are those rocks which enters in the atmosphere of the earth and get finished by burning
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