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A meteoroid is any natural object in the solar system the size of dust to size of a boulder.

It may have been created as a result of ejecta from an impact on a planet as in the Mars meteorite, debris from an asteroid collision like the fragments that fell in Sudan in October 20008, a piece of a comet as in the Leonid's (which are dust and debris from comet Tempel-Tuttle) or it may have just formed that size.

The name change is generally associated if it enters Earths atmosphere. If it strikes the ground it is a called meteorite. If it burns up in the atmosphere of comes in at such a shallow angle it goes back in to space again it is known as a meteor.

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