[ what is diffrent between metors and meteriotes ]
 

 ​Meteors are not meteorites. Like meteorites, meteors are objects that enter Earth’s atmosphere from space. But meteors—which are typically pieces of comet dust no larger than a grain of rice—burn up before reaching the ground. As they vaporize, they leave behind the fiery trails sometimes called “shooting stars,” even though meteors are not really stars. The term “meteorite” refers only to those bodies that survive the trip through the atmosphere and reach Earth’s surface. In simplest terms, a meteorite is a rock that falls to Earth from space. The vast majority of meteorites are pieces of asteroids, the small rocky bodies that orbit the Sun mostly between Mars and Jupiter. 

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both are same
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most of us probably have seen metors or shooting star .... most meteriotes that enter the earth atmosphere are so small that they vaporize completely and never reach the planet surface .if any part of a meteroid survives the fall through the atmosphere and lands on the earth , it is called meteroites
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