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A meteor is a bright trail or streak that appears in the sky when a meteoroid coming from space is heated to incandescence by friction with the earth's atmosphere. Therefore the composition of a meteor is the same as the composition of the incoming meteoroid.

If the meteoroid does not survive its passage though the atmosphere we do not for sure know what its composition may have been.

However if it does survive and lands as a "meteorite" we can collect it and analyse its composition.

Work with meteorites has found a variation in composition as you can find out from the related link below.

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