2017-09-18 at 2:36 AM UTC
no...and yes. its another stupid ass-raping and unnecessary complication of the english language. they are both physically the same thing. so...say you have an astronaut floating around in space after his lifeline broke. hes just beebopping around up there...and what he is called at that point is METEOROID.
poor astronaut METEOROID happens to get caught in the gravity well of earth...pulling him through the atmosphere whereupon the high speed causes the air to set him on fire, at which point he obtains the name METEOR. so. the poor hapless astronaut-flambe manages to hit the ground before he completely vaporizes, burying himself several feet deep into the dirt, at which point his new name is METEORITE. meaning...its the same thing but depending on where it is and what its doing it has a different name to define it. theyre just trying to confuse people instead of saying its a 'space rock' or a 'space rock burning up in the atmosphere' or 'a space rock that crashed into the ground.'
technically to be named a meteoroid/meteor/meteorite something has to have its origin in space and rock or some sort of space-shit, but you get the point. an astronaut burning up on reentry would probably just be called 'astronaut burning up on reentry'...then when he crashed into the ground 'astronaut lawn dart'
2017-09-18 at 2:42 AM UTC
mashlehash
victim of incest
[my perspicuously dependant flavourlessness]
We call them falling bombs.
