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What are
meteors, meteorites, and meteoroids? How are
Meteors or, as some people like to call them, "shooting stars"
are actually bits of rock or other space debris that have entered our
Earth's atmosphere. Their temperature can reach up to 4000 degrees, and
they can travel up to 100 miles per
hour. It is a visible event because the meteor becomes very bright as it
is burning up. A meteorite is a piece of a meteor or asteroid that survives its trip through the atmosphere and hits the ground without being completely destroyed or burned up, such as the one shown here. A
meteoroid is a small boulder-sized piece of debris in the Solar System.
It is a solid object moving in
interplanetary space. It is much smaller than an asteroid and considerably
larger than an atom or molecule. Meteors, meteorites, and meteoroids are different in many ways. A meteoroid is up in space out of Earth's atmosphere. A meteor is a meteoroid that has entered in Earth's atmosphere. The meteor becomes a meteorite when it reaches the ground or lands in the ocean. However, usually they burn out before they ever reach Earth's surface. I hope
you've learned a lot . If you would like to see pictures and learn more
check out the websites in my bibliography below. Bibliography:
Meteors and Meteor Showers
This is the Barringer Meteor Crater
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they different?
