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Everywhere. Meteoroids are space rocks and dust, falling through space in orbit around the Sun under the influence of gravity.

There isn't any formal distinction between "meteoroid" and "asteroid", but in general if it's big enough to see in space before it strikes the Earth, it's an asteroid. If it's too small to see before it becomes a meteor while burning up in the atmosphere, it was a meteoroid.

The Earth is hit by many thousands of meteoroids every day, which vary in size from softball-sized down to dust. The "average" size is probably about the size of a grain of rice. Larger objects are less common; the meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia last year was probably about the size of a city bus, but there are only a few that size per decade. (Actually, they are so rare that it's difficult to calculate their probability of impact.)

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