I asked Douglas Netherland at the Meteor Crater Museum, west of Odessa, to explain the difference between a meteor and a meteorite.
“A meteor is still in the sky and a meteorite has landed,” he quickly answered.
A meteor streaked across the sky and landed near Odessa 63 thousand years ago and formed a crater.
“It wasn’t discovered until the late 40s. It’s essentially just a space rock. It’s just a bo…