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You can find this story in My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.Also known as shooting stars, meteors is actually called a meteoroids. They are formed when part of an asteroid or comet orbiting the Sun breaks off and then burns up as it enters the Earth's atmosphere. Meteoroids that reach the Earth's whole are known as meteorites.