What are the main components of meteors?

Answer 1

A meteor is what a meteoroid is known as when it enters the Earth's atmosphere and becomes visible in what is colloquially known as a shooting star. Unlike a comet, a meteor has no parts. It is simply what a meteoroid looks like as it streaks through the atmosphere.

Answer 2

Meteorites are generally divided into three classes according to their composition:

Iron: This is the most regularly encountered meteorite. The most common material (90%) is iron, with a smaller amount of nickel mixed in. An example of the meteorites that were irons were the ones that fell at Barringer, Arizona, and Wolf Creek, Australia.

Stony meteorites: This type of meteorites are the most common type to fall. On the other hand, because they are very comparable in composition to the rocks on Earth, they are tricky to spot. Some stony meteorites contain small glassy spheres called CHONDRULES, and objects with these spheres are known as CHONDRITES. Stony meteorites without the spheres are called ACHONDRITES.

Stony Irons: These are the final major class of meteorite. They contain small pieces of stone fixed in a body of iron.

Answer 3

I don't remember a lot since it was 8th grade when we went over this but I think it goes meteor, meteoroid, then meteorite.