{"id":15877,"date":"2011-11-10T11:34:54","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T09:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=15877"},"modified":"2011-11-10T11:34:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T09:34:54","slug":"meteor-vs-meteorite-vs-meteoroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/10\/meteor-vs-meteorite-vs-meteoroid\/","title":{"rendered":"Meteor vs. Meteorite vs. Meteoroid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you are not an\u00a0astronaut\u00a0 or some other kind of space geek, chances are you have no idea what’s the difference between meteor, meteorite and meteoroid. \u00a0If you are anything like, you probably use meteor and meteorite\u00a0interchangeably. \u00a0Apparently, there is quite a specific difference. \u00a0Here is an easy to understand description from the Mental Floss<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Say you\u2019re a bit of interplanetary dust or debris trucking through the vacuum of space, minding your own business. You\u2019re not very big. Certainly not big enough to be called an asteroid. In fact, you might just be a speck of dust or even smaller. Congrats! You\u2019re a meteoroid!<\/p>\n

But say, for example, a bright blue planet suddenly gets in your way and sucks you in, and before you know it you\u2019re streaking through an atmosphere so fast that you ablate (fancy way to say \u201cvaporize\u201d) and let off a bright streak of light. You are now officially a meteor.<\/p>\n

Now, on the other hand, if you started out big enough, then enough of you will emerge from this furnace o\u2019 friction to hit the ground in some farmer\u2019s field, making you a meteorite.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

If you are not an\u00a0astronaut\u00a0 or some other kind of space geek, chances are you have no idea what’s the difference between meteor, meteorite and meteoroid. \u00a0If you are anything like, you probably use meteor and meteorite\u00a0interchangeably. \u00a0Apparently, there is quite a specific difference. \u00a0Here is an easy to understand description from the Mental Floss: … Continue reading Meteor vs. Meteorite vs. Meteoroid<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[243,53,2962],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-15877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-language","tag-space","tag-terminology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17752,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/16\/chelyabinsk-meteorite\/","url_meta":{"origin":15877,"position":0},"title":"Chelyabinsk meteorite","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"February 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"By now, everyone has probably already heard about the meteorite that exploded over the Chelyabinsk city in Russia. \u00a0There are tonnes of videos on YouTube and photos all over the web. \u00a0I think this one, that meshes a few of them together, is pretty good. 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