Term specifically describes small chunks of rocks and debris in space that burn up in Earth’s atmosphere is :
Meteors
Explanation:
A meteor is a meteoroid or a particle broken off an asteroid or comet orbiting the Sun – that burns up as it enters the Earth's atmosphere, creating the effect of a "shooting star".
Meteoroids that reach the Earth's surface without disintegrating are called meteorites.
Due to Earth's escape velocity, the minimum impact velocity is 11 km/s with asteroid impacts averaging around 17 km/s on the Earth. The most probable impact angle is 45 degrees.
Meteoroids have a pretty big size range. They include any space debris bigger than a molecule and smaller than about 330 feet space debris bigger than this is considered an asteroid.
But most of the debris the Earth comes in contact with is "dust" shed by comets traveling through the solar system.
The surface of a meteorite is generally very smooth and featureless, but often has shallow depressions and deep cavities resembling clearly visible thumbprints
Most iron meteorites, like the example at right, have well-developed regmaglypts all over their surface.
