Meteors

= = Meteors and Meteorites

[|Meteors] A meteor looks like a streak of light that only lasts for a few seconds and is known as a shooting star. Meteors are small pieces of rock, dust or metal that fall from space at extremely high speeds but it burns before it hits the ground.

[|Meteorite] A meteorite is a piece of rock, dust or metal that falls from space at extremely high speeds and does not burn up in the atmosphere and hits the ground.



References

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