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Earth as a Planet — Geography STD 9 — Question

ICSE BoardEnglish MediumSTD 9GeographyEarth as a Planet4 Marks
Question
Distinguish between the following pair.
Meteors and Meteorites
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Answer

Meteors :
  1. A meteor is a shooting star like a streak of light across the sky at night. It is composed of pieces of stony or metallic rocks.
  2. These travel around the world in an eccentric orbit.
  3. Big meteors fell down in Siberia in 1980 and 1948.
Meteorites :
  1. Meteorites are the scattered pieces of the meteors which are unconcerned after burning.
  2. These are the dust of meteors falling on the earth as meteorites, some of these are also of great size.
  3. About 5000 years back a meteorite fell down in Arizona (USA) and created a hollow, 180 meters deep and of 12,000 meters diameter.

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