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Rana and Amira are getting ready to watch a meteor shower. Rana wonders how space rocks become meteors and meteorites. How can Amira explain this phenomenon to Rana?

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Answer:

stars burst creating meiores

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Answer: Rana can explain what happens for it to become meteors and meteorites

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They’re all related to the flashes of light called shooting stars sometimes seen streaking across the sky. But we call the same object by different names, depending on where it is. When a meteoroid survives a trip through the atmosphere and hits the ground, it’s called a meteorite. When meteoroids enter Earth’s atmosphere (or that of another planet, like Mars at high speed and burn up, the fireballs or “shooting stars” are called meteors. (Actually Wrote On a Old essay By Me)

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