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Old 02-December-2006, 02:06 AM
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Originally Posted by 01101001 View Post
A meteorite is a meteor that landed, and is a kind of rock, like so many other -ite rocks and minerals. A meteor is the rock streaking through the atmosphere. A meteoroid is the rock in space that could become a meteor.
Thanks for clarifying that!


And thanks for the info, everybody. It helped a lot- I'm no longer wondering.



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Originally Posted by antoniseb
If a Texas sized KBO were to hit a main belt asteroid, the asteroid would leave a crater on the inbound KBO. There would be some escaping debris in Earth's direction, but not much.
Would a KBO actualy drift all the way to the asteriod belt?

Haha, I'm so full of questions..
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