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Ein Asteroid It is a bigger, fiercer Himmelskörper, who is such a umkreist. Ein Meteor The day is a fragment of an asteroid or a comet, the erdatmosphäre is penetrated and the Erde falls. Ein Meteor wiederum is a smaller Himmelskörper, perhaps from Fels or Metall, if it is a Weltraum. Meteoroids became meteorites when they entered the Erdatmosphäre and fell onto the Erde. If ComeT There hangs a Himmelskörper from Eis, Staub and Felsen together, who says a characteristic Leuchterscheinung (Kometenschweif) ​​​​when it is the case that it is no longer possible. And one Meteor It is the Lichterscheinung, the entsteht, as a Meteoroid in the Erdatmosphäre eintritt and verglüht – was often as Sternschnuppe bezeichnet wird.