A scientist finds a piece of rock in a crater. He analyzes the rock and realizes that the composition is mostly of iron and nickel. He claims that he found a meteor. What is most likely the scientist’s error?

He actually found a meteorite.
His analysis of the composition is not correct.
He incorrectly used the term “crater.”
He actually found a meteoroid.

Based on the fact that the scientist found a rock in a crater and called it a meteor, the scientist's error is that He actually found a meteorite.

What is a meteorite?

A meteorite refers a meteoroid that has been able to survive the trip from space into the Earth and has landed on the Earth's surface.

The scientist found the rock in a crater on the surface of the Earth so it was not a meteor that he found, but a meteorite.

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