TRIBUNLAMPUNG.CO.ID – You are certainly no stranger to the term meteor which is often considered a shooting star.
Then, do you understand the term meteoroid?
Term meteorit we will meet in Natural Science lessons, while still in school.
Meteorites are space rocks that enter the atmosphere and fall to the earth’s surface.
Meteorites can touch the earth’s surface because they do not burn up in the atmosphere.
The fall of meteorites to earth, often makes a large hole in the earth’s surface.
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For example the hole in Hoba West.
Discussion what’s that meteorit in turn related to meteoroids and meteors.
a. Meteoroid
According to Roisatul Mahmudah, et al, in the Analysis of the Validity of the Certainty of Response Index (CRI) Question Items for Identification of Misconceptions of Solar System Material and Astronomical Phenomena (2016), meteoroids are space rocks that float freely and move quickly.
The rock was created from the remains of a comet or asteroid that once passed near the Earth’s area.
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