Meteoroids, Meteors and Meteorites

Kamchatka Meteor (18 December 2018) imaged by Japanese Meteorological Agency Himawari 8satellite. . In blog post meteoroids, meteors and meteorites.

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a moviemaker with a large rock heading for Earth must ignore the laws of physics and make things behave the way moviegoers want, otherwise no-one will watch it. And so asteroids and comets are called meteors, and meteoroids and meteors are called meteorites, and meteorites are called...well…meteorites, actually. The …