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meteorites


Objects from outside the Earth that enter the Earth’s field of gravitation and fall to the Earth’s surface. Meteors, on the other hand, are objects from space that burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere.	1
‡ Meteorites are bodies that are left over from the time when the planets formed, and therefore give us clues about the formation of the solar system.	2

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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