TORONTO—Although he tried onerous to recall what he had realized about area rocks again in center faculty, native man Jason Nieto reportedly forgot the distinction between meteoroids and meteorites Thursday, struggling to explain what had simply killed his canine. “God, I at all times forgot which one is the type that truly hits the bottom, if that’s even the distinction, so I’m unsure what simply crushed Churro,” mentioned Nieto, explaining that the meteorite or meteoroid—or perhaps asteroid, if that was a class together with all of them—got here streaking out of the clouds whereas he was strolling his Pomeranian within the park. “If it hadn’t left a crater the place Churro was and had simply burned up within the environment, then that’s a meteoroid, proper? Certainly one of them kills canines in area in orbit, and the opposite kills canines on Earth. I simply can’t keep in mind which is which. Oh wait, shit, there’s additionally only a ‘meteor’ too, isn’t there? What am I supposed to inform the vet after I convey the ashes over?” At press time, experiences confirmed a stumped Nieto was frantically looking out his cellphone to see if it mattered that the area rock had exploded when it hit his canine.
