Meteorites, also known as "meteors"

Meteorites, also known as "meteors", refer to meteorsInterplanetary spaceTraveled throughatmosphereAnd it fell toplanets、satelliteorAsteroidremnants after the surfaceSolid stateNatural objects. 

Meteors in space pass through the atmosphere at extremely high speeds, generating high enough heat to melt their surface while burning and emitting a strong light. If they are small in size and burn out when they pass through the atmosphere, they are meteors; If they are large in size (about 10 meters or more in diameter), there is still a part of them that has not burned out after passing through the atmosphere, and the remaining part falls on the ground, it is a meteorite.

The larger the volume of the meteoroid before entering the atmosphere, the more intense the phenomenon that accompanies the fall. It is currently believed that almost all meteorites originate from the asteroid belt. The asteroid belt is an area located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter and is home to numerous small celestial bodies. When a collision between asteroids changes each other's orbits, or when the collision produces debris, they leave their original orbits, and some fly towards Earth, land on the Earth's surface, and become meteorites.

According to their composition, meteorites can be roughly divided into three categories: one is similar in appearance and composition to rocks on EarthStone meteorites, one is the one that contains some ironStone iron meteorites, one is iron as the main componentIron meteorites(also known as meteorite iron). 

On June 23, 2025, a diamond meteorite weighing one ton was found in the mountains and forests of Qiandongnan Prefecture.