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Not exactly. Asteroids and meteoroids fall into the same category of object, the only difference being that asteroids are larger.
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What do meteroids come from?
comets of asteroids .
Asteroids are bigger than?
meteroids
What makes up planets?
rocks and stones also asteroids and meteroids
How do meteorites turn into?
Asteroids get caught in Earth's gravitational pull. Asteroids become meteroids when they enter Earth's atmosphere. Meteroids becomes meteors when they light up due to friction. Meteors become meteorites when they hit Earth's surface.
What are meteroids that entered the atmosphere and hit earth without completely burning up?
Meteor or Asteroids ...
What can impact a planet?
Meteroids or comets can impact on a planet.
What is the difference between asteroids and meteroids?
Asteroids are "large" lumps of rock whereas meteoroids are small particles, either grains of dust or boulder sized lumps of material.
How do Meteroids get made?
meteroids are made from aseroids
Does space junk interact with asteroids?
This would happen, space junk could collide with asteroids, but most space junk is close to the earth, away from the main asteroid belt. It would be more likely to collide with meteroids and other bits of space junk.
What are the similarities between meteor and meteorites?
Meteors have hit Earth and meteorites haven't.
Are asteroids same as comets?
no
What is the differences and similarities between comets asteroids and meteors?
guess wut comets have 3 parts the head [nucleus] and the tail obviously but the third is the coma that holds the gasses that make the tail meteors are and can become meteors meteorites and meteoroids meteors are passing through our atmosphere meteroids are meteors in space meteorites have hit earth asteroids are basically meteors that have reached 6 miles wide 3 of the biggest ones are considered dwarf planets ceres [eris] vesta and sedan
