ASTEROIDS, METEOROID, METEOR, METEORITE

• Asteroids


  These are "minor planets"

  • rocky objects that orbit the sun
• Meteoroid


  "space rocks"

  • These are smaller than asteroids
• Meteor


  "Shooting stars"

  • meteoroids entering the Earth's atmosphere at high speed burning up
• Meteorite


  Fragment of an asteroid, comet, or meteoroid that survived its passage through the atmosphere and reached the Earth's surface.