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What are meteors with no known origin called?

1: Generic meteors
2: Perseid meteors
3: Carbonaceous chondrites
4: Sporadic meteors

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A bit of rock or metal out in space, orbiting the Sun and smaller than an asteroid is called a...

1: Meteorite
2: Meteoroid
3: Meteor
4: Planetoid

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Most of meteorites are of which variety?

1: Irons
2: Stones
3: Stony-irons
4: Sedimentary

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The largest meteorite ever discovered weighed about ...

1: 40 pounds.
2: 4 million tons
3: 60 tons
4: 600 tons

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How small are the smallest meteorites?

1: Some are the size of dust particles, even microscopic.
2: The smallest on record are about 5 millimeters in diameter.
3: Some as small as a half across have been discovered, but these are extremely rare.
4: The smallest are about the size of a large potato and weight roughly 12-15 pounds.

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