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When a meteor reaches the Earth's surface, it is classified as a meteorite.
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A rocky meteoroid is on a collision course with planet Earth. The meteoroid is only 0.10 m in diameter. The meteoroid will most likely not reach the surface of the Earth because?
Friction generated as the meteoroid enters the atmosphere generates enough heat to vapourise the rock before it reaches the Earth's surface.
Where is a meteoroid when it is 75 km above earth's surface?
When a meteoroid is 75 km above earth's surface, it is within the troposphere.
Meteoroid that reaches surface without burning up completely?
Meteorite
What are the parts of a meteoroid that have broken the earth's surface called?
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What are Pieces of rock that actually strike Earth's surface called?
As a rock is falling through the atmosphere, it is a meteor. When it hits the earths surface, it is a meteoroid.
What is a meteoroid that reaches the surface of the earth is known as?
A meteorite.
What is a meteoroid that reaches earths surface with out burning up?
a meteor that hit Earth without burning up in the mesosphere is called meteoroid
A rocky meteoroid is on a collision course with planet Earth. The meteoroid is only 0.10 m in diameter. The meteoroid will most likely not reach the surface of the Earth because?
Friction generated as the meteoroid enters the atmosphere generates enough heat to vapourise the rock before it reaches the Earth's surface.
What is a meteor that reaches earths surface called?
meteoroid
Where is a meteoroid when it is 75 km above earth's surface?
When a meteoroid is 75 km above earth's surface, it is within the troposphere.
Meteoroid that reaches surface without burning up completely?
Meteorite
A meteor that strikes Earth's surface?
A "meteorite" is the word for a meteoroid that impacts Earth's surface.
If a meteoroid hits earth surface its called?
Meteorite.
What do you you call a 8 letter word meaning meteoroid that has entered earth's atmosphere?
Well, a Meteorite is a meteoroid that reaches the ground. But, that has 9 letters.
What are the parts of a meteoroid that have broken the earth's surface called?
biblong
What is magma called when it reaches the earth's surface?
Magma that reaches the Earth's surface is known as lava.
What does magma do when it reaches Earth's surface?
it breaks the earth's surface
