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An asteroid is a large chunk of rock and metals in outer space - they may have at one time been a fragment of a moon or planetoid, or formed as an accumulation of loose debris in space.
Due to impacts with other bodies in space, smaller pieces can break off from the asteroid. These pieces are known as meteoroids while they are in outer space, meteors when they leave a visible streak of light as they pass through earth's atmosphere, and meteorites if they remain intact and hit the earth's surface.
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How comets asteroids and meteors different from each other?
They arent
How are meteors asteroids and comets the same and different?
well meteors are usually boiling like comets, however asteroids are usually a formation of gas and ice but they all form in outer space
What makes meteors so unique?
Meteors are pieces of asteroids or whole asteroids in the earths atmosphere only. Written By, Brainiocity
Which can only be observed with a telescope asteroids meteors stars or planets?
Asteroids.
do meteors and asteroids mean the same?
Not exactly. If small lumps of rock stay out in space, they are asteroids. If they enter the earth's atmosphere they are meteors.
Do superstitions asteroids comets meteors have scientific basis in the Philippines?
Superstitions about asteroids, comets, and meteors have absolutely no scientific basis whatsoever.
What is the origin of comets asteroids and meteors?
The universe
What are meteors physical properties?
The physical properties of the meteors are that they are rocky and parts of other asteroids.
Why do asteroids comets and meteors fall suddenly?
CAUSE.
What sizes are the meteors and asteroids and comets?
your gayhigo away
What are probable causes of moon indentations?
Meteors, or asteroids.
How do meteors get knocked out of the asteroid belt?
There are collisions between asteroids, which can knock asteroids and asteroid fragments into different orbits. Some asteroids may not have originated in the asteroid belt.
