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You don't know the difference between a comet, a meteor, and an asteroid, amirite?
by Anonymous12 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 Anonymous12 years ago
I looked it up.
http://www.aerospaceguide.net/w...nasteroid.html
http://ctrlv.in/46848
by Anonymous12 years ago
Kind of, but not really, look it up, I don't feel like explaining it.
by Anonymous12 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 Anonymous12 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 Anonymous12 years ago
It said that a meteor was a meteroid that is burnt up by the Earth's atmosphere.
by Anonymous12 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 Anonymous12 years ago
That's basically what it is I think.
by Anonymous12 years ago
One's a rock, one's a bigger rock, and one's an even bigger rock?
by Anonymous12 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 Anonymous12 years ago
Also, I use the three interchangeably.
by Anonymous12 years ago
I know what a hemorrhoid is.. Does that count?
by Anonymous12 years ago
I learned that in fourth grade ._.
by Anonymous12 years ago
One is a hunk of ice, one is a hunk of falling rock, and one is an even bigger hunk of rock.
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