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   Cometsare space snowballs made of dust & ice that orbit the sun. The biggest collision between two solar system bodies seen by mankind occurred when comet Shoemaker- Levy 9 collided with Jupiter. Some comets appear at regular intervals like the famous Halley's Comet which returns every 75 years.
   Meteor showers are produced when pieces of comet burn in the Earth's atmosphere which looks like shooting stars racing across the sky. Every year in the month of November, when Earth passes thorough a swarm of meteoroids called the Leonids, forms a spectacular shower. The Great Barringer crater, a meteorite impact crater about 1,200 m in diameter is located in Arizona desert of USA which was formed 50,000 years ago and today a popular tourist attraction. Meteorites are bits of space debris that survive in hitting the Earth while.
Meteors are chunks of rock that burn in the atmosphere.
Asteroids are giant boulder of rock; some are so big that they have their own moons.

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