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No. Meteors are just tiny bits of ice, rock or dust flying through the Earth's atmosphere and buring up. Usually there is nothing left after that. Even when something large goes through, they are very fast. Blowing them up, if you could, would break them into many parts, so from having one large one, you could have hundreds or thousands of small ones still coming, so it would achieve nothing.

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A meteorite is a piece of rock or metal from space that has already hit the surface. Blowing one up would be possible but pointless and probably a bad idea. Meteorites can be worth a lot of money, larger ones generally being more valuable.

Such a rock that is still in space is called a meteoroid or, if it is larger, an asteroid. While we could potentially blow up an asteroid that is threatening Earth, scientists generally agree that it would be a bad idea. Blowing up an asteroid does not make it go away; it just breaks it up into smaller pieces. Those pieces can still hit Earth, and with more of them coming at us, there is a greater chance that at least one of them will hit a populated area.

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Meteors that blow up are found in the mesosphere.


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yes they would because of the inpacke of them do to speed and the heat from both of them.I may be wrong and if iam then iam sorry.


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