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Meteoroids are small objects in space, usually made of rock or metal. These bodies often get close to a planet and fall through its atmosphere. A burning streak of light, called a asteroid comet meteor meteoroid , is visible as it falls through the sky. Sometimes the object does not burn up completely and a part of it survives the fall to the planet’s surface. These rocky bodies, called asteroids comets meteors meteorites , are studied by scientists to gain a better understanding of our solar system
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1. Meteoroids are the pieces of dust and rocks that break from a comet's nucleus. 2. It appears generally as a bright head with a long tail. 3. It is a large, water planet with a blue hydrogen-methane atmosphere and faint rings. 4. It is a small rocky body that orbits the sun in our solar system. 5. It is a big meteoroid that reaches the Earth's surface.
What term generally describes small chunks of rocks and debris in space? meteorites meteoroids meteors meteoroids
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