A meteor shower It consists of meteoroids, small bodies from a grain of sand to one meter in size that float in space. They are called smaller particles that weigh less than a gram micrometeoroid. They are called bodies large enough to be seen from Earth through a telescope without entering the atmosphere asteroids from asteroids.
A meteor or shooting star is a bright trail of light in the sky caused by a meteoroid entering the atmosphere. A large bright meteor like the full moon is also called a fireball, especially if it explodes into the atmosphere.
A meteorite it is a meteoroid (usually large) that did not completely disintegrate in the atmosphere and burned out and ended up on Earth.
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