Most Meteoroids Are

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Multiple Choice

Most meteoroids are:

• A) rock-sized pieces of ice chipped off comets.
• B) centimeter-sized pieces of interstellar matter.
• C) fragments of asteroids.
• D) small pieces of debris from the original solar nebula.

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent pieces of information available to estimate another piece of information or parameter.

Student T Distribution

Student's t-distribution is a probability distribution used in statistics, especially for small sample sizes or unknown population variances, providing a basis for the estimation of population parameters.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent pieces of information that go into the estimation of a parameter or calculation of a statistic.

Normal Distribution

The probability distribution is evenly spread around the mean, signifying more frequent occurrences of data points near the mean than those that are more distant.