Lesson 2: Meteroids, Meteor, and Meteorites [ Practice]

☄️If a meteoroid comes close enough to Earth and enters Earth’s atmosphere, it vaporizes and turns into a comet: a snowball-like object with dust tails.

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☄️  Comets have distinct paths or orbits, and all of them orbit the Sun every 75 or 76 years.

 

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 ☄️ Rocky objects from space that fell on the ground are called meteoroids.

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 ☄️ Asteroids and meteoroids are the same due to their size, chemical characteristics, and origin. 

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☄️ The color of a meteor depends on its composition like blue meteor consists of magnesium

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 ☄️ The origin of a meteoroid could be from an asteroid, dust of comets, or planetary objects.

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 ☄️ Meteors are said to be originated from meteoroids.

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 ☄️ Most asteroids are made of different kinds of rocks, but some have clays or metals, such as nickel and iron.

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 ☄️ There are three main types of meteorites: iron, stony, and stony-iron meteorites.

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