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They aren't; the average meteoroid is about the size of a grain of rice. Things the size of a Baseball are rare, and an "unusually large" meteoroid might be a foot or two in diameter.

A "meteor" is the streak of light in the sky caused by a space rock (or "meteoriod") falling into the Earth's atmosphere. Friction and the heat of compression will heat it to incandescence, and make it visible for a hundred miles around.

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