An explosion. Sometimes, depending on the surface of the planet, it leaves a crater. (75% of Earth is covered with water, and considerable areas of Saturn's moon Titan appear to be covered with some sort of liquid.)
Craters are depressions in a planet's or moon's surface caused when a meteor hits the surface. On the moon craters remain undisturbed because there are no environmental forces like wind and rain to disturb resulting shape of the crater.
A meteor becomes a meteorite when it hits Earth's surface.
Meteorite
a meteorite
Meteor or asteroid
a planet like jupiter is approximately 2.528 strong and if a meteor hits it. it would not destroy
How big it is, how fast it is, what it is made of and where it hits.
Meteor showers are caused when space debris of any sort (man-made or not) hits the atmosphere and burns up.
Severe damage to our planet, or even the end of the world, depending on how big or where it hits.
Meteor showers are caused when space debris of any sort (man-made or not) hits the atmosphere and burns up.
An object in space is called a meteroid. A meteroid that is in the Earth's atmophere is called a meteor. A meteor that falls to the Earth is called a meterioite.
As a rock is falling through the atmosphere, it is a meteor. When it hits the earths surface, it is a meteoroid.