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I think you are reffering to either comets or asteroids which are found or originate from very specific areas in space. The asteroid that we know about originate from the asteroid belt between mars and Jupitar, they are reminates of a planet that didnt have enought gravity to produce a planet and there are many objects in this region of space. Comets on the other hand, originate for farther out in space from the Oort cloud or the Kuiper belt which are beyond Neptune where it is very cold and they are mostly icey bodies. A meteorite is a small particle of debris that doesnt burn up in the earths atmosphere and hits the ground, a meteor is just a streak of light in the sky as the particle burn up and a meteor shower is when earths orbit passes through the debris left by the tail of a comet, that is why they happen at certain times of year and seem to originate from the same area of the sky.

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