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Scientists Say: Asteroid, meteor and meteorite – Science News for Students
Asteroids, meteors and meteorites are all space rocks. But one is in orbit, another is in the atmosphere and the third is on the ground on Earth.
asteroid: A rocky object in orbit around the sun. Most asteroids orbit in a region that falls between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Astronomers refer to this region as the asteroid belt.
atmosphere: The envelope of gases surrounding Earth or another planet.
gravity: The force that attracts anything with mass, or bulk, toward any other thing with mass. The more mass that something has, the greater its gravity.
meteor: (adj. meteoritic) A lump of rock or metal from space that hits the atmosph…
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