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A Meteor, Meteoroid, and Meteorite are all related to the flashes of light called “shooting stars” sometimes seen streaking across the sky. But we call the same object by different names, depending on where it is.

Meteoroids are objects in space that range in size from dust grains to small asteroids. Think of them as “space rocks."

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.

Mind blowing facts about Meteors:

A meteor shower occurs when the Earth passes through the trail of debris left by a comet or asteroid.

Meteors are bits of rocks and ice ejected from comets as they move in their orbits about the sun.
Approximately 30 meteor showers occur each year that are visible. The Perseid meteor shower occurs each year in August.

Meteors are sometimes abserved in Red, Yellow and Green trails.

A fireball is a meteor that is brighter than the planet Venuso