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A scientist finds a piece of rock in a crater. He analyzes the rock and realizes that the composition is mostly of iron and nickel. He claims that he found a meteor. What is most likely the scientist’s error?

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Answer: D meteoroid.

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He actually found a meteoroid.

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  • When an Asteroid that is enter the planet in the atmosphere and there in the space planets debris.
  • The streak of light seen in atmosphere when the meteoroid burns up on its way through the atmosphere is a meteor.
  • The meteoroid which lands up on the surface of the planet is known as meteorite.
  • So, when a scientist found a piece of stone in a crater, He actually found a meteoroid.
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