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Earth is hit by rocks (meteorites) every day.
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What is a rock from space that hit the earth?
meteorite
Is the meteorite hit the Earth?
Yes. A meteorite is a piece of rock or metal from space that has hit Earth's surface.
What are the pieces of rock that hit Earth's surface?
Meteorites
Is a meteorite really going to hit earth or an asteroid?
a meteorite is a rock that hits the earth an asteroid is a rock just floating out in space and a meteor is a rock that comes into the earth's atmosphere but burns up
What are rocks that hit the earth's surface called?
A rock from space that strikes the Earth's surface is called a meteorite.
Why is earth a rock?
Earth is not a rock, it is a planet. If anything rock is earth but earth is not rock.
Why does the moon have moon rock?
because it is amalgamated debris from when a mars sized planet hit earth
How did the planets get moons?
Some get by asteroids others (like Earth) hit hit with a meteoroid and the rock that fly out into space form together to make a moon
Why are there craters on the moon and not on the earth?
Because meteoroids hit the moon and when meteoroids come towards Earth our atmosphere burns it away into tiny pieces of rock.
What has more mass a rock in earth or a rock on the moon?
a rock in earth
How could people go on with there life knowing that that Big rock will hit earth one dayhow could people not think about that when that big rock hit the earth that's it?
They can staight away go on the rocket and of to another planet! If they ask for money say:"its all about our life and death let us go!!!!
Why doesn't meteor hit the Earth's surface?
Yes, they do. Just this week (January 18, 2010) a meteor crashed through the roof of a doctor's office in Virginia and landed on the floor of the examining room. Granted, MOST meteors burn up in the atmosphere and don't survive the passage. But some do.
