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प्रश्न
Distinguish between the following pair.
Meteors and Meteorites
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उत्तर
Meteors :
- A meteor is a shooting star like a streak of light across the sky at night. It is composed of pieces of stony or metallic rocks.
- These travel around the world in an eccentric orbit.
- Big meteors fell down in Siberia in 1980 and 1948.
Meteorites :
- Meteorites are the scattered pieces of the meteors which are unconcerned after burning.
- These are the dust of meteors falling on the earth as meteorites, some of these are also of great size.
- About 5000 years back a meteorite fell down in Arizona (USA) and created a hollow, 180 meters deep and of 12,000 meters diameter.
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