Some meteors are large so that they can reach the Earth before they evaporate completely. The body that reaches the Earth is called

Comet

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Shooting star

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Asteroid

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Meteorite

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Meteorite

Some meteors are large so that they can reach the Earth before they evaporate completely. The body that reaches the Earth is called a meteorite.

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Those large celestial bodies, which can reach the Earth before evaporating completely are known as:

Statement 1: Meteors are known as shooting stars, although they are not stars.

Statement 2: Meteors are small objects, which enter the earth's atmosphere at high speed, heat up due to friction, glow and then evaporate quickly.

\frac{M_{E}}{R_{E}} > \frac{M_{M}}{R_{M}}

M_{E}, M_{M}, R_{E}

R_{M}

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