From Comets to Meteorites.

A meteor showered people with a beautiful display of a shooting star as a meteor lit up the night sky over the U.S. Reportedly, it hurdled through the Western sky at 41000 miles per hour. NASA monitored booms and shakings from shock waves after it disintegrated and crumbled above the Keystone Forest. Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Utah were in the show of hands, capturing the sighting of a burning-up meteor.

But what differentiates comets, asteroids, meteoroids, meteors, and meteorites? Let’s start with comets and work our way down to the land. First of all, comets are made of frozen gases outside of the asteroid belt. Closer to the belt, meteoroids are composed of rocks or metals. When it leaves the belt and enters Earth's atmosphere, it’s referred to as a meteor. The moment it passes through the atmosphere, it starts burning up, lighting the sky with shooting stars. If it touches the land and can be picked up, it becomes a meteorite.

*Vocabularies; comet, asteroid, meteoroid, meteor, meteorite, asteroid belt, meteor shower, shower sb with sth, show of hands, sighting, burn up, shock wave, disintegrate, hurdle, work one’s way down

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