Question

defination of meteors

Answer 1

a small piece of rock, etc. in space. When a meteor enters the earth’s atmosphere it makes a bright line in the night sky

Answer 2

Meteors are no more than dust and ice from the trail of comets. Meteorites can be "stony", made up of minerals rich in silicon and oxygen, "iron", consisting mainly of iron and nickel, or "stony-iron", a combination of the two