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Re: (meteorobs) Meteoroids vs. asteroids
In a message dated 97-04-18 12:00:56 EDT, you write:
<< >I need one of the longest, outrageous but best definitions in the world
>of the difference between an Asteroid and a Meteor.
>>
OK here we go - if a little pebble is floating in its orbit in the vaccuum of
space its a meteoroid. When it hits the Earth's atmosphere and begins to burn
up its a meteor. If the pebble was big enough to survive re-entry and hits
the ground its a meteorite.
The difference between an asteroid and a meteoroid, I believe, is size.
Asteroids are rather LARGE pebbles in space. Some are large enough to be
full fledged moons if they were to orbit a planet. Meteoroids are tiny
pebble, dust grain sized objects.
Kevin