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No. 37,000 to 38,000 tons of matter hit the earth each year. We're pretty much being bombarded constantly.
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If a giant meteoroid hit earth will humans have to live on earth?
== == If a giant meteoroid hit earth humans would not live any more or animals earth will die.
What is a meteoroid that reaches earths surface with out burning up?
a meteor that hit Earth without burning up in the mesosphere is called meteoroid
What is the difference between meteors and meteorodis?
A meteoroid is the 'shooting star' you see in the sky. A meteor is a meteoroid that has entered the earth's atmosphere A meteorite is a meteor that has hit the surface.
What occurs when Earth crosses the orbit of a meteoroid cluster?
A "meteor shower". (The individual space rocks pulverize or vaporize when they hit Earth's atmosphere.)
How did the planets get moons?
Some get by asteroids others (like Earth) hit hit with a meteoroid and the rock that fly out into space form together to make a moon
Has the moon been hit by a meteoroid?
yes
When was the first meteoroid that hit earth?
impossible to say as all evidence of it has been eroded andmeteoroids have been hitting the earth before its creation when it was just fragments of rocks. 177
How it'll end the world in December 12 2012?
Its Not The 12th Its Actually The 21st. Well A Meteoroid Will Hit The Earth And Will Kill ALMOST Every Human. And It Will Create A New Ice Age And Mammoths Will Come Back. BUT Anyone Who Survived In That Meteoroid Hit Will Be Attacked By The Mammoths. On December,21,2012. ITS COMING UP!!!
What is a rock from space that strikes earths surface?
A meteoroid is a rock in space. If it strikes the earth's atmosphere, it will create a meteor, which is a streak of light in the sky. If the meteoroid was large enough, it may reach the ground. Once it has hit the ground it is called a meteorite.
When the meteoroid hit earth did it cause an earthquake?
Some meteoroids do: It mainly depends on the size of it - because as they enter Planet Earth's atmosphere, they consume themself slowly until they hit the ground. Some very large meteoroids may provoke earthquakes.
How often do meteorites hit Earth?
When meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere they are usually traveling around 10-70 kilometers per second. The atmosphere quickly burns up smaller ones and slows larger ones down to around 300 kilometers per hour before they strike the Earth.
How dinasorous died?
They got hit in head by big meteoroid.
