A meteoroid burning up on entering the atmosphere is commonly known as a shooting star.
Its a meteoroid! or an asteroid
After it hits Earth, a meteoroid is called a meteor.
An object is called a meteorite once it has struck the ground; before that it's called a meteoroid
The streak of light created by a meteoroid entering the Earth's atmosphere is called a meteor. A meteorite is the remains of a meteoroid that did not vaporize after entering the Earth's atmosphere.
In Little Alchemy, you can create a meteoroid by combining "stone" and "sky." First, make "stone" by combining "earth" and "fire." Then, combine the resulting stone with "sky" to create a meteoroid.
A meteoroid is a small piece of space debris in the solar system. When a meteoroid enters the Earths atmosphere it becomes a meteor (shooting star).If the meteoroid survives the atmosphere and lands on the Earth, it becomes a meteorite.
It is a meteoroid. To prove my answer, here is where I went:ask.com and I typed in what is a icy rock in outer space called?It gave me the answer meteoroid.
A sand-to boulder-sized particle of debris in the solar system is called a meteoroid.
Meteorite.
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a meteor that hit Earth without burning up in the mesosphere is called meteoroid