Question

why are meteors known as shooting stars and how are they different from the meteorites?​

Answer 1

They glow when heated by entry into the atmosphere. they are small n close while stars are far. So they both appear to be a pinpoint of light of similar range of brightness and size and sometimes might appear as stars. but they move rapidly through the sky with a glowing tail to the eye's persistance, hence they are described and shooting stars.

Meteors the fragments of comets which burn up in the earth's atmosphere while the enter, while they enter inside it.

Where as

When a bigger fragment fails to completely burn up in the the earth's atmosphere and hits the ground by causing a crater in it that fragment called as meteorite

Answer 2

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When meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere (or that of another planet, like Mars) at high speed and burn up, the fireballs or “shooting stars” are called meteors. When a meteoroid survives a trip through the atmosphere and hits the ground, it's called a meteorite.