meteor |
meteoroids |
As nouns the difference between meteor and meteoroids
is that
meteor is meteor (streak of light caused by extraterrestrial matter entering the atmosphere) while
meteoroids is .
comet |
meteoroids |
As nouns the difference between comet and meteoroids
is that
comet is (astronomy) a celestial body consisting mainly of ice, dust and gas in a (usually very eccentric) orbit around the sun and having a "tail" of matter blown back from it by the solar wind as it approaches the sun while
meteoroids is .