Yes, this happens all the time. Most meteors are tiny; the size of a grain of rice, and usually smaller. A few are fist-sized or Basketball sized; a VERY few are car sized. But every now and ten, the Earth does get hit by something big enough to do some damage, and very rarely, big enough to do a LOT of damage.
Look at the Meteor Crater in Barringer, Arizona, for example.
A Comet is a body in perpetual orbit. A Meteorite is a body which enters the Earth's atmosphere. It is unlikely that Halley's Comet will ever crash into the Earth.
Objects in the Solar System, near Earth, usually have speeds between 30 and 42 kilometers per second. Since Earth moves at 30 km/sec, a head-on crash between Earth and a meteorite may occur at a speed of up to about 72 km/sec.
the meteor, or meteor crash site, is here: http://www.neopets.com/moon/meteor.phtml
It is called a meteorite if it lands on the Earth's surface.
Meteorite.
A rock that strikes Earth's surface is known as a meteoroid. Once it enters the Earth's atmosphere and reaches the ground, it is then called a meteorite.
Scientists discovered a rare meteorite in the desert.
Yes. A meteorite is a piece of rock or metal from space that has hit Earth's surface.
No. The atmosphere burns up the meteorite.
A meteorite that has landed on Earth is called a "fall."
On Earth's surface.
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