meteor and meteorite

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Kenta  #518367  Sat, 24 May 08 12:18 PM

Hello. Is there any difference between them?

Or is "meteor" just an abbreviation of "meteorite"?

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optilang  #518381  Sat, 24 May 08 12:40 PM

see:

http://www.spacetoday.org/SolSys/Earth/Meteorites/MeteoritesExplained.html
  
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Pter  #519451  Tue, 27 May 08 06:32 AM
The simple answer is that a meteor is what you can see in the sky.  If it makes it to the ground without burning all up, we call that piece of stone a meteorite. 
  
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Kenta  #519529  Tue, 27 May 08 12:25 PM

Thank you. You helped me a lot!

  
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