+184 You don't know the difference between a comet, a meteor, and an asteroid, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Don't quote me on this, but I think a comet is an ice ball travelling through space, an asteroid is rock travelling through space and a meteor is a rock plummetting towards Earth.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I looked it up. http://www.aerospaceguide.net/w...nasteroid.html http://ctrlv.in/46848

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Kind of, but not really, look it up, I don't feel like explaining it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Link doesn't work... A comet is composed of ice and dust and orbits the sun. It's distinguished by the tail. An asteroid is a rock that is free floating and doesnt orbit the sun. A meteor is a rock that is burnt up by the Earth's atmosphere.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The comet bit is right. An asteroid is a rock, which may or may not orbit a star, though most do. A meteor is technically the fire around an asteroid burning up in the atmosphere. The rock itself is a meteoroid.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It said that a meteor was a meteroid that is burnt up by the Earth's atmosphere.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think it means a meteor is the meteoroid material currently burning in the atmosphere, therefore the fireball. I'm not really sure anymore. Too many conflicting sites.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's basically what it is I think.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

One's a rock, one's a bigger rock, and one's an even bigger rock?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Before I checked the comments I thought to myself I probably know but only in my own language, then I checked the comments and I was right.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Also, I use the three interchangeably.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I know what a hemorrhoid is.. Does that count?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I learned that in fourth grade ._.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

One is a hunk of ice, one is a hunk of falling rock, and one is an even bigger hunk of rock.

by Anonymous 12 years ago