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The Difference Between Asteroid and Meteorite
The difference between an asteroid and a meteorite is a meteorite. We think of them as asteroids while they're in space, then meteors or shooting stars are the smallest of these. And so that's the distinction. But I guess we're trying to stop asteroids, too many asteroids becoming meteorites if we possibly can. There's another rock that you write about in the piece which is not a meteorite, but it has traces of meteorite dust in the middle of it. Which tells us quite a lot about what happened with that. Asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. It really was this sort of richness of eridium that led people to believe this slightly crazy idea that an asteroid
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