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No. The meteors you see in meteor showers are sand to pebble sized objects that burn up long before reaching the ground. Most meteors are too small to reach the surface. Meteorites come from larger meteors that fall individually and often show up brilliantly in the night sky. Some a bright enough to be visible during the day.
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∙ 12y agoNo, meteor showers are not the result of the collision of asteroids. The asteroid belt is between Mars and Jupiter, and is quite distant from Earth; if the asteroids were to collide with each other it is very unlikely that they, or any resulting debris, would reach the Earth. Meteor showers are the result of the debris left behind by comets that swing in toward the sun on long elliptical orbits. Comets are composed mostly of various types of ice, which cement together rocky debris, and as they get closer to the sun, the ice begins to melt and the debris is released. If this happens in the vicinity of the Earth, there is a meteor shower.
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How many people died from a meteor shower in the year of 2000?
No one has died as result of a meteor shower.
What is the result of a collision with a large object from space is often an impact?
You've definitely got that right ! There's no debating the fact that the result of a collision is often an impact.
What type of plate collision does not result in subduction of one plate under the other?
A divergent boundary does not result in the subduction of one plate under the other.
How does a meteoriod turn into a meteorite?
As a result of out-gassing, comets leave a trail of solid debris behind them. If the comet's path crosses Earth's path, then at that point there will likely be meteor showers as Earth passes through the trail of debris.
Collisions between oceanic plates and continental plates are thought to result primarily from?
Meteor impacts in the ocean basins
How can you describe astroids?
Asteroids and Meteoroids were created when the universe was created or as a result of a collision.
What force allows asteroids to fall from orbit and hit Earth's surface?
The asteroids that strike earth's surface do not fall from orbit. Asteroids have fairly small masses, so their orbits are easily altered by interactions with other objects. Sometimes the orbit of an asteroid is changed such that its orbit intersects Earth's orbit. If the timing works out so that the asteroid reaches the point of interestion at the same time as Earth does, then a collision will result.
How many people died from a meteor shower in the year of 2000?
No one has died as result of a meteor shower.
What geological features are formed by craters as a result of impact?
Meteor craters.
What is the result of a collision with a large object from space is often an impact?
You've definitely got that right ! There's no debating the fact that the result of a collision is often an impact.
What created the mountains?
Mountains are the result of the collision of tectonic plates.
Of every 3 collision how many result in an injury?
1
Mountain ranges did not form as a result of continent collision?
Most of the large mountain ranges formed as a result of continental drift/collision, some of the smaller ranges were formed in other ways.
In Florida immersion in water or fire as a result of a collision happens in less than of all collisions annually?
In Florida, immersion in water or fire as a result of a collision happens in less than?
Where would you most likely find?
The largest collection of asteroids is found orbiting the Sun between orbits of Mars and Jupiter, This area is sometimes called the "asteroid belt". Think about it this way: the asteroid belt is a big highway in a circle around the Sun. The asteroids are like cars on the highway, except that they are thousands of miles apart on the average. Even so, sometimes the asteroid cars run into one another. When this happens, the asteroids may break up into smaller asteroids. Scientists think that most asteroids are the result of collisions between larger rocky space bodies. Asteroids can be a few feet to several hundred miles wide. The belt probably contains at least 40,000 asteroids that are more than 0.5 miles across. If an asteroid is disturbed by the gravitational pull of a planet, or is involved in a collision, it can be thrown out of the belt and go into orbit as a moon. Some of Jupiter's many small moons were likely once asteroids.
What can a collision between two planets result in?
The complete destruction of both.
What is the result of collision with two sections of the continental crust?
mountain formation
