Question

distinguish between meteor and meteorites​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Difference Between a Meteor and a Meteorite. ... The interplanetary debris is known as a meteoroid. Most meteoroids that enter the earth's atmosphere vaporise and never reach earth's surface. The meteoroids that survive the fall and land on earth are called a meteorite.

Answer 2

Answer:

Meteor

Meteorite

Meteors are still up in the sky.

Meteorites are on the earth.

Meteoroids break down in the earth’s atmosphere which results in the flash of light known meteors.

Meteorites are the broken meteoroids which land on the earth.