Meteorite

A meteorite was an object that fell onto a planetary surface from space. Commander Luke Skywalker believed that a meteorite crashed near Echo Base on the ice planet Hoth, but in reality it was an Imperial probe droid.
==Behind the scenes==
In real life, a meteorite is a meteoroid (a lump of rock or iron that orbits around the sun) that enters Earth's (or another planet's) atmosphere and hits the ground. The term meteor, on the other hand, refers to the streak of light that appears in the sky when a meteoroid enters the planet's atmosphere but burns up before it reaches the ground, which is why they're also called "shooting stars."
People often confuse meteoroid, meteor and meteorite since they are all used interchangeably in everyday language. The word "meteor" in particular is commonly used for a meteoroid flying through outer space, for a glowing meteoroid in the atmosphere (rather than the burning streak of light in the sky), or for an object that has already landed on Earth (one example is found in the name Meteor Crater, a famous impact-structure in Arizona) or even a human-made object.
==Appearances==
*The Vow of Silver Dawn
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*Adventures in Wild Space: The Rescue 
*Thrawn 
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*The Empire Strikes Back: So You Want to Be a Jedi? 
*Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back junior novelization 
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*The Princess and the Scoundrel 
*Shadow Fall 
*Aftermath: Life Debt 
*Shadow of the Sith 
*A Crash of Fate 
===Non-canon appearances===
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==Sources==
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*Poe Dameron: Flight Log
*Star Wars: The High Republic: Chronicles of the Jedi
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==Notes and references==
Category:Astronomical objects