Question

Meteors are many but meteorites are just few .comment

Answer 1

Meteor – A meteoroid that is observed as it burns up in the Earth's atmosphere – a shooting star.

Meteorite – A meteoroid that survives its passage through the Earth's atmosphere and impacts the Earth's surface.

From these to defination u can easily understand why meterorites are less in quantity.

Answer 2

meteor is a meteoroid that burns in the mesosphere. They are so many in no but they get burnt as they enters earths atmosphere.

a meteorite is a meteoroid that survives its passage through earths atmosphere and impacts the earths surface. There are very less meteorites that pass through  without  getting burnt and fall on the surface at a very high speed..