Where do meteorites come from? #NHM #Space #Science

[0:00]Asteroids occasionally bump into each other. Sometimes they collide with so much force that a piece of rock gets knocked off, and this can leave the asteroid belt.

[0:11]We call this new rocky object a meteoroid. It will travel through space spiraling towards the sun. Sometimes Earth gets in the way of a meteoroid's path, and if this rock enters our atmosphere, its name changes again. We'd call this rock a meteor. As it burns up in our atmosphere, it creates a streak of light that you might also know as a shooting star. But meteors don't always completely burn up in our atmosphere. If it survives its long fall and lands on the ground, we call this a meteorite.