This is Marília Meteorite, which fell in Marília, Brazil, in 1971. Why is this a meteorite and not a meteoroid?
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A)
Meteorites are only found in space.
B)
Meteorites are larger than meteoroids.
Meteoroids do not enter the atmosphere, only meteorites do.
D)
Meteoroids that survive the fall through the atmosphere and land on Earth
are called meteorites.