Question

Are meteoroids and meteorite same???¿????????????please answer

Answer 1

A meteoroid is generally debris,or,say, a peice of interplanetary matter. A meteoroid becomes a meteorite when it survives the fall through the atmosphere of the earth.

Answer 2

A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space. Meteoroids are significantly smaller than asteroids, and range in size from small grains to one-meter-wide objects. Objects smaller than this are classified as micrometeoroids or space dust