meteorite is what you call for a meteor that has fallen to earth.
meteorite is what you call for a meteor that has fallen to earth.
what do you call a meteor that has fallen to earth?
meteorite
earth-grazing fireball









































an earth-grazing fireball (or earth-grazer) is a fireball, a very bright meteor that enters earth’s atmosphere and leaves again. some fragments may impact earth as meteorites, if the meteor starts to break up or explodes in mid-air. these phenomena are then called earth-grazing meteor processions and bolides. famous examples of earth-grazers are the 1972 great daylight fireball and the meteor procession of july 20, 1860.









































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as an earth-grazer passes through the atmosphere its mass and velocity are changed, so that its orbit, as it re-enters space, will be different from its orbit as it encountered earth's atmosphere.
earth-grazing fireball
bullet::::- dg208/g powered by two rover w2b/23 engines, first flown 20 january 1944.









































bullet::::- dg209/g powered by two rover w2b/27 engines, first flown 18 april 1944.









































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bullet::::- meteor f.1, trent turboprop









































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bullet::::- meteor f.8 jet deflection test-bed: one f.8 (ra490) modified with rolls-royce nene engines cantilevered forward of the wings and "deflection boxes" to direct jet exhaust downwards for jet-lift.









































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bullet::::- meteor nf.11
gloster meteor