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A shooting star is usually a grain no larger than a pea, burning up in the air long before it can reach the ground.
Astronomy Facts, sourced to NASA.
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What it means
The three words are not interchangeable and the difference is one of location. A meteoroid is the rock while it is still in space, a meteor is the streak of light as it burns up in the atmosphere, and a meteorite is the piece that survives to be picked up off the ground. The great majority never become meteorites. The brightness comes from air compressed and heated in front of the grain, not from friction as such.
The claim comes from NASA.
- SourceNASA
- CollectionAstronomy Facts
- Difficultyeasy
- Length90 letters, 18 of them different
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