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What forces act on a meteor when it enters the atmosphere?
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MeteorOID - a space rock falling through space.
MeteOR - the streak of light caused by a space rock being heated to incandescence by friction and compressive heating as it passes through the Earth's atmosphere.
MeteorITE - a space rock that fell to Earth.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y ago"Meteor" is the glowing streak in the sky caused when a space rock (more likely, a "space pebble") passes through the Earth's atmosphere and is heated to incandescence ("glowing hot") by friction and compressive heating.
The original space pebble is sometimes called a "meteoroid", and if it survives to land on Earth, it is called a "meteorite".
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∙ 14y agoIt is like driving down the highway in a car. Occasionally you run into a bug, or a swarm of bugs, and splat!. There is a collision. The Earth is orbiting around the sun and every now and then it runs into a a piece of rock from asteroid collisions.
The other cause is that there are swarms of dust and rock and ice fragments orbiting the sun like the Earth. These are usually from extinct comets. Occasionally our orbits intersect and there is a meteor shower.
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∙ 14y agoMeteor.
It's called a "meteoroid" when it is out in space. When it enters the Earth's atmosphere and is heated to incandescence, the bright streak of light is called a "meteor".
If the object survives the fiery passage through the atmosphere and hits the ground, it is called a "meteorite".
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∙ 14y agoMeteorite. When it flashes through earth's atmosphere it is known as a meteor, and when it is simply drifting through the vast cold airless space it is a meteoroid (rock to dust sized asteroid).
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∙ 14y agoYou imply that shooting stars have names. They don't, and millions of them have entered the Earth's atmosphere. Nobody will have a count of how many there have been since the Earth began.
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∙ 11y agoAn extremely large one. Small ones burn up fast due to their size and mass. A large one will burn up, but it won't be enough until it hits the Earth's surface.
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∙ 13y ago"Impact" is the word most often used for the hitting itself. The mark left on the Earth by the impact is commonly called a "crater".
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∙ 13y agoYes, usually. If they are fairly large, part of the meteor may reach Earth's surface.
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∙ 12y agoIt is caused by a meteor entering the Earth's atmosphere and burning up as it falls, which appears as a momentary streak across the night sky.
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