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What is the difference between meteors and meteorites?

What is the difference between meteors and meteorites?
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What is the difference between meteors and meteorites?

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A meteorite is a meteor that impacted earth

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meteors are big balls of gases but meteorites are even smaller than the actual meteor or they are chunkes from the meteor
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