well what is the mass of the meteor, the distance it travels is unimportant
A 20,000 mile wide object would not be a meteor; it would be a planet significantly larger than Earth. In that case Earth, which is about 8,000 miles wide, would definitely be destroyed.
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Meteors start to glow in the Mesosphere, and usually burn out in the upper Stratosphere. Put another way, when you first see a meteor, it is about 80 miles up, and when it "goes out" it is about 40 miles up.
Arizona meteor crater is 0.737 miles or 1.186 kilometers in diameter.
Your weight depends on the distance from the center of Earth. Weight decreases with distance from Earth's center, so if you are 50,000 miles away, you would weigh less than 40.0 pounds when compared to being 100,000 miles away. The exact weight can be determined using the inverse square law of gravitation.
Well how big is this meteor? Normal meteorites that hit the Earth do not cause any damage to the Earth's crust. It would have to dive many, many miles to even touch the crust. Our many layers between the lithosphere and the crust usually protects us from damaging the actual crust.
Don't be worrying! The meteor that your talking about will not go into 2012,but it will be in 2032.The meteor that killed the dinosaurs was 7 miles long.The meteor is called J002E3.So,don't worry!
There are plenty of famous meteors, to know which one specifically you are speaking about, I would need a name. The most famous is probably the one that many believe killed all the dinosaurs. This meteor is estimated to be about 6 miles wide, and created a crater about 110 miles across. Many believe that the Chicxulub Crater in Yucatan, Mexico is this meteor.
I personally have never heard of a "meteor rise". Meteors are often called "Falling Stars", but every alternative I have heard includes the phrase "falling"."Meteor rise" is most likely a misheard "meteorite".A meteor is the streak of light we see when a bit of space rock or dust hits the Earth's atmosphere at tens of thousands of miles per hour, and bursts into incandescence because of the heat of friction. Most meteors are about the size of a grain or rice or smaller, and several thousand of them hit the Earth each day - even more during a "meteor shower". If the meteor survives collision with the earth, it is then considered a meteorite.The occasional bigger rock may range from basketball-sized to car-sized, but things much larger than that are (fortunately!) fairly rare.
All shooting stars or meteors occur within the atmosphere of the Earth, predominately the mesosphere, which means they occur within 50 -> 120km of the Earths surface.
The weight of the moon is 7.3459 X 10^19 metric tons. The distance from the Earth to the moon is 239,200 miles.
No. There is no comet or asteroid or meteor going to hit the Earth. Most of it is superstition.