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What are Meteors?

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What's the difference between a meteor, meteorite, and meteoroid ... and exactly how scared should we be? Crash Course explains exactly what happens when earth encounters debris as it plows its course around the sun. 

Meteorites usually fall in one of these categories: stony, iron or stony iron. The majority of meteorites we find are ...

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