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- Meteoroid: a small solid piece travelling through space.
- Meteor: the bright body seen when such a piece burns by friction in the atmosphere.
- Shooting star: another name for a meteor.
- Falling star: the everyday name people give a meteor.
- Meteorite: a meteor that has reached the ground and struck it.
- Meteor shower: the event in which many meteors fall at one place.
- Friction: the resistance when two things rub against each other, which produces heat.
- Asteroid: a small body of rock and metal, whose fragments become meteoroids.
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