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The term asteroid was used for the TV movie appropriately called "Asteroid" (1997).
Both the Bruce Willis movie "Armageddon" (1998) and the earlier, critically-panned "Meteor" (1970) used the term meteor(technically meteoroid) but both objects were asteroid-sized.
The Tea Leoni movie "Deep Impact" (1998), and the TV movie "A Fire in The Sky" (Richard Crenna, 1978) had comets hitting the Earth.
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How long before the metor as big as Texas will hit earth?
There are no known asteroids the size of Texas that have even the slightest chance of hitting Earth. The only known Texas-sized asteroid is Ceres, which has a stable orbit in the asteroid belt and could never hit Earth.
What is a chunk of an asteroid that has broken off in outer space?
An asteroid-sized chunk of rock with a tail would be a comet.
What is an asteroid sized object that is made of rock and frozen materials?
It is a meteor or meteorite depending on whether or not it has entered the Earth atmosphere.It can also be a comet if it is mostly or only frozen materials.
Is it true a asteroid can be as big as sand grains?
There are sand-sized rock fragments in the solar system, but when they get to that size they are not considered asteroids. They are called meteoroids.
How big an asteroid would it need to have made such a devastating effect to earth?
It could be one huge one like the size of Alaska it would destroy all of U.S or it could be alot of meium sized ones to hit earth like alot and then idk wat would happen but the race would drop to like 15-35 percent of survivers but u never know
How long before the metor as big as Texas will hit earth?
There are no known asteroids the size of Texas that have even the slightest chance of hitting Earth. The only known Texas-sized asteroid is Ceres, which has a stable orbit in the asteroid belt and could never hit Earth.
What is a chunk of an asteroid that has broken off in outer space?
An asteroid-sized chunk of rock with a tail would be a comet.
What is a chunk of asteroid that has broken off in outer space?
A Meteoroid if the chunk is boulder sized or smaller, or just another Asteroid if it is house-sized or bigger.
What A chunk of an asteroid that has broken off in outer space?
A Meteoroid if the chunk is boulder sized or smaller, or just another Asteroid if it is house-sized or bigger.
A medium sized rocky object orbiting the sun?
The most common rocky objects in space are asteroids. An asteroid can range from a small rock to known sizes of hundreds of kilometers in diameter.
What is an asteroid sized object that is made of rock and frozen materials?
It is a meteor or meteorite depending on whether or not it has entered the Earth atmosphere.It can also be a comet if it is mostly or only frozen materials.
What is the numbers of moons in Mars?
Mars actually has 2 asteroid-sized moons Deimos and Phobos. Does that answer your question?
Is an asteroid harmful?
It's a rock. If it hits you, it will hurt. Depending on the size, it may be anything from "Meh..." to "Ghaaak!" For example, we've just discovered that an asteroid will come fairly close, on an astronomical scale, to the Earth on Monday, June 27, 2011. It will miss, but it will be closer to Earth than any number of satellites. If the asteroid hits one of those satellites, the satellite will be destroyed. This asteroid is about the size of a large bus. If it were to hit the Earth, it would most likely explode high in the atmosphere, causing no damage. If the asteroid were ten times bigger, it could cause a lot of damage, and if it were 1 hundred times bigger, it could destroy a city - if it hit. But the bigger the rock, the rarer it is. We expect a bus-sized rock to hit Earth every decade or so, and things 10 times larger to hit once per century or so.
Can 1000 earth sized spheres fit into a sun sized sphere?
yes
What is the interior in the asteroid belt?
The vast majority of the volume of space called the "Asteroid Belt" is just that; space. It's mostly empty, with a very few large bodies, thousands of medium-sized rocks, and millions of small rocks.
Is it true a asteroid can be as big as sand grains?
There are sand-sized rock fragments in the solar system, but when they get to that size they are not considered asteroids. They are called meteoroids.
How to calculate if an asteroid will hit the earth?
There is essentially no chance of any given asteroid ever hitting the Earth, because those with orbits that made them likely to hit the Earth have already hit the Earth. So it's not something you really need to worry about.If you're just curious... well, really, you don't want to know that badly. It comes down to solving n-body gravitational equations, and for any reasonably sized n (i.e. larger than, say, 3) there is no known exact solution except in special cases, so you have to use numerical methods and hope the interesting bits don't get lost in rounding errors.
