What are meteoroids?
1 Answer
Meteoroids are pieces of rocky material that are flying around in space. Smaller cousins of asteroids, their size is generally between a dust particle to objects up to a meter wide.
Explanation:
Meteoroids may be parts of asteroids or comets that have broken off, or they may result from the collision of a larger body with another planet or moon.
If a meteoroid stays in space until it gets too close to Earth (with our atmosphere) where it turns into a glowing meteor, and if there is enough of it left to hit the ground, it becomes a meteorite.
So it would sound reasonable to call someone who studies these rocks a meteorologist, but the weatherman already took that name. People that study these space rocks are called meteoriticists.
There are images here:
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/meteors/
