[meteorite-list] Small Asteroid 2010 AL30 Will Fly Past TheEarth

[geozay at aol.com]

>>"My" definition of "meteoroid" is  just the standard
textbook definition. Before it hits the Earth, it's
a  "meteoroid." While in fiery flight through the
atmosphere, it's a "meteor."  If a piece lands on the
Earth (and somebody finds it), it's a  "meteorite."<<

I understood that a meteoroid is a small bodied  natural object, in a 
separate solar orbit from that of earth's. When it enters  the earths atmosphere 
and in the incandescent phase, the visible phenomena is a  meteor. 
Afterwards, during the dark phase, its no longer in a separate solar  orbit from that 
of the earth's. It has yet to hit the ground to become a  meteorite. What 
is this object called during the dark phase? I personally call  it a 
meteorite since its under the control of the earth at that point and not  
independent of the earth. Also there has been detected by various space probes  out 
around Jupiter, "meteoroids" that are too fast to be in solar orbit and thus  
of interstellar origins. Are these still called meteoroids?
GeoZay