Ever get confused between a meteor and a meteoroid? Want to know exactly when an asteroid becomes a meteor? The American Meteor Society‘s Vincent Perlerin is here to help, with a handy infographic to keep it all straight. At the rate space rocks are falling these days, best get up to speed, and fast!
Infographic located by Moonandback.com




























![A trajectory analysis that used a computational fluid dynamics approach to determine the likely position and velocity histories of the foam (Credits: NASA Ref [1] p61).](http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/fluid-dynamics-trajectory-analysis-50x50.jpg)



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