Meteor | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-02

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoroid


00:01:19 1 Meteoroids
00:02:31 1.1 Composition
00:03:12 1.2 In the Solar System
00:04:41 1.3 Collision with Earth's atmosphere
00:06:49 2 Meteors
00:07:49 2.1 History
00:10:32 2.2 Fireball
00:12:14 2.3 Effect on atmosphere
00:14:36 2.3.1 Colours
00:16:19 2.3.2 Acoustic manifestations
00:17:05 2.4 Meteor shower
00:18:31 2.5 Notable meteors
00:20:41 2.6 Gallery of meteors
00:24:35 3 Meteorites
00:24:44 3.1 Frequency of impacts
00:25:50 3.2 Impact craters
00:27:21 3.3 Gallery of meteorites
00:28:21 4 See also
00:28:30 4.1 Relating to meteoroids
00:28:42 4.2 Relating to meteors
00:28:51 4.3 Relating to meteorites



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A meteoroid () is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space.
Meteoroids are significantly smaller than asteroids, and range in size from small grains to one-meter-wide objects. Objects smaller than this are classified as micrometeoroids or space dust. Most are fragments from comets or asteroids, whereas others are collision impact debris ejected from bodies such as the Moon or Mars.When a meteoroid, comet, or asteroid enters Earth's atmosphere at a speed typically in excess of 20 km/s (72,000 km/h; 45,000 mph), aerodynamic heating of that object produces a streak of light, both from the glowing object and the trail of glowing particles that it leaves in its wake. This phenomenon is called a meteor or "shooting star". A series of many meteors appearing seconds or minutes apart and appearing to originate from the same fixed point in the sky is called a meteor shower. If that object withstands ablation from its passage through the atmosphere as a meteor and impacts with the ground, it is then called a meteorite.
An estimated 25 million meteoroids, micrometeoroids and other space debris enter Earth's atmosphere each day, which results in an estimated 15,000 tonnes of that material entering the atmosphere each year.