How does a meteoroid form??

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Answer 1

Wow, Cirric, that is a bit special. No doubt some meteroids are debris from supernova, but iron meteroids are rare compared with the common carbonaceous ones.

Really a meteoroid is simply general space debris. The can be created from pulverisation when an asteroid hits a planet, such as the meteorites that have been found that have come from Mars. An asteroid hits Mars and the explosion rockets debris like shrapnel faster than Mars' escape velocity. It blows out in many directions, but some reaches earth.

Comets are made up of loose material, gases and water. When after numerous trips around the sun, those gases and water are completely driven off, you are left with a collection of rocks, gravel and dust, which are basically meteroids of one size of another.

Even active comets leave a trail of debris, and the bigger swarms of this debris provide some of our meteor showers like the Orionids and the Leonids.

Asteroids collide from time to time, and they produce space shrapnel.

Asteroids themselves can be thought of simply giant meteoroids.

Some meteoroids no doubt may be leftovers from the material from which the Solar System formed.

So, for Meteroids, read space debris.

Answer 2

Hi. Usually it is part of a supernova explosion. The iron (at the core of most stars) condenses out of the exploding plasma. Sometimes they form when two larger bodies hit each other.