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Meteorites- a mass of stone that passes through the Earth's atmosphere.
Meteors- A meteorite is a solid piece of debris, from such sources as asteroids or comets, that originates in outer space and survives its impact with the Earth's surface. It is called a meteoroid before its impact.
Comets-a celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust and, when near the sun, a “tail” of gas and dust particles pointing away from the sun.
Moon- it is a planetary satellite. Several planets have moons.
Planets- any of the eight large heavenly bodies revolving about the sun
The distance of all the planets, measuring the closest point in its orbit from earth is as follows: Mercury is 57 million miles, Venus is 26 million miles, Mars is 35 million miles, Jupiter is 370 million miles, Saturn is 744 million miles, Uranus is 1,607,000,000 miles, Neptune is 2,680,000,000 miles and Pluto is 2.67 billion miles.
Distance from Earth to the Sun is 92,960,000 miles (149,600,000 km).
The distance from Earth to the Moon is 238,900 miles (384,400 km).
The closest star to the sun is Proxima Centauri. It is 4 light years away.
The closest one was comet & meteor was 0.0094 Min. Distance. It was in 1491
Celestial Bodies