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Technically, a "meteor" is the streak of light caused by a space rock fallingthroughthe atmosphere and being heated to incandescence by friction and compression. So there are no meteors in space.

You're probably wondering about a "meteoroid", which is a space rock drifting through space, which would become a meteor if it ever hits the atmosphere. We don't know, because we've never had a chance to examine one close-up in space. But we expect that they would all be different, depending on how and where they were formed - or were blasted apart by the collision of other larger space rocks.

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