It depends on the size of the meteorite. Little meteorites hit Earth thousands of times a day, things the size of a grain of dust or so. Larger ones, the size of a grain of rice, burn up in the atmosphere hundreds of times each day.
Larger ones, perhaps as big as a Baseball, hit our planet every few weeks, and more rarely really large ones land. The one that made Arizona's "Meteor Crater" was probably the size of a big building, about 150 feet tall.
Of course, bigger things have hit the Earth before; it was probably an asteroid or comet that wiped out the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago.
Depends on the size of the meteor, and where it hits.
If you were hit directly you'd die from only a small chunk.
The farther away, the bigger an impact you'd survive, pretty much up to the point where the meteorite becomes big enough to have a global impact.
Everybody on the Earth would be having their WORST BAD DAY EVER.
Depending on the size of the meteorite, it could cause local catastrophe or the damage could be more widespread. Meteoroids and small asteroids 50 feet in diameter smack into the Earth every century or so; in 1908, one crashed into Siberia near a town called Tunguska; The explosion was heard a thousand miles away, and it caused a blast equivalent to a nuclear bomb. Bigger ones caused Meteor Crater in Arizona, or may have caused the Younger Dryas mini-ice age of 14,500 years ago. We suspect that a fairly large rock smashed into the Indian ocean about 4500 years ago, causing massive tsunamis all around the Indian Ocean, including Madagascar and Australia. Australian "Dream Time" legends seem to tell of the Gods striking the ocean. And coincidentally, the Sumerian legends of Gilgamesh and the Biblical account of Noah and the Flood could be describing similar tsunami events.
Of course, a REALLY BIG rock, about 10 miles in diameter, is believed to have killed off the dinosaurs - and 65% of all life on Earth - about 65 million years ago. The geological record includes mass extinction events about every 25 million years or so.
It depends on the size of the meteor. Most will disintegrate on impact, causing some local damage, but others can have catastrophic outcomes. It is now believed that a meteor impact, off the coast of Mexico, threw up so much debris into the upper atmosphere that the resulting climatic disruption caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. The meteorite itself is thought to be buried in a crater that it made in the bay of Mexico.
In 1908, there was an impact by comet or meteor in the Tunguska Region of Eastern Siberia. It is thought that the bolide exploded at low altitude (5 to 10 km) rather than actually hit the earth and no impact crater has been found. However, it is classified as an impact event. The explosion, flattened 2000 square kilometres of forest.
everyone freakin burns and dies baby peace
How big? Where? In the ocean or on land? In a city or in the middle of a desert? It could wipe out the human race, or it could be just a minor catastrophe ... its all chance.
Happens all the time. relax.
Both will burn eventually ...
The meteor came plummeting towards the earth.
By virtue that a meteor is a meteoroid that is burning up in the Earths atmosphere due to friction, then the answer is yes.
Forces of gravity ( gravitational force) pulls the meteor to earth
It would not be going in a straight line because it would already be in orbit round the Sun. When it comes close to Earth it is then attracted by the Earth's gravity and this is a standard 3-body problem with the meteor under two forces. It could be solved numerically.
If a baseball size meteor entered our atmosphere, it would get burned up and not hit the ground. Most meteors that strike the Earth hit at around 20 km/s, therefore if a baseball sized meteor actually hit the ground, it would release roughly 10^9 joules of energy. That's roughly equal to the energy released by the explosion of 1000 kg of TNT.
well the meteor would be sucked in by the earths gravitational pull
The meteor came plummeting towards the earth.
In the movies it says that all Pokemon came to Earth on a colossal meteor from space.
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.
Life as we know it would disappear. It's not possible for a meteor to punch a clean hole through the Earth. So a meteor big enough would crack the Earth into pieces. These might eventually be pulled together again by gravity, but the planet would be unrecognizable.
a meteor would hit earth every five seconds
meteor Chase
That depends on where you are on the Earth and where the meteor hits. ________________ Wherever you are on earth, if an object the size of the earth collided directly with us (at that size it would be a rogue planet, I think, rather than a meteor) then certainly all life on earth would come to an end, and likely within minutes.
Meteor-ite.
When a meteor hits the Earth it forms a crater.
IT was made to be about a meteor that came by the earth and created living cars that where hungry for gas and where lead by the GOBLIN TRUCK.
By virtue that a meteor is a meteoroid that is burning up in the Earths atmosphere due to friction, then the answer is yes.