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Meteorites do attack Earth. Meteorites are chunks, usally of planets, that have been split up. While they are travilling towards the sun (gravity) they are sometimes attaracted by our gravity.
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Meteorites that strike the moons surface cause which surface feature?
meteorites or other objects strike the moon they creat
When meteorites strike the moon they create?
Craters.
How often do meteorites hit Earth?
When meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere they are usually traveling around 10-70 kilometers per second. The atmosphere quickly burns up smaller ones and slows larger ones down to around 300 kilometers per hour before they strike the Earth.
When meteorites or other objects strike the Moon what do they create?
Impact Basin / Impact Crater
What protects the earth from small meteorites while the earth's moon is?
The earth's atmosphere protects it from small meteorites - actually the specific part is the mesosphere. When meteorites contact this part of the atmosphere they wither burn up or become very small. I don't understant the "earth's moon is" part, sorry.
What is meheorites?
Meteorites are asteroids that strike the Earth.
What are rocks from space that strike earth's surface?
Meteorites.
What are piece of rock that strike the Earth's surface?
Meteorites.
Meteorites in Antarctica?
Meteorites strike everywhere on Earth, but they are difficult to distinguish by sight. On Antarctica there are vast ice sheets, where black meteorites stand out in contrast.
Meteorites that strike the moons surface cause which surface feature?
meteorites or other objects strike the moon they creat
Have any meteors hit the earth in 2009?
Yes. In a typical year there are between 18,000 and 80,000 meteorites of 10 grams or more, which strike earth.
Meteors that strike the ground?
Meteors that strike the ground are called meteorites.
Why does the earth have fewer meteorite impact?
They are less common because most meteors burn up entirely before they get a chance to strike the earth and become meteorites.
When meteorites strike the moon they create?
Craters.
Will the world end if a meteor hits the earth?
No. Thousands of meteors hit the earth every year. In a typical year there are between 18,000 and 80,000 meteorites of 10 grams or more, which strike earth.
How many basketball-sized meteorites land on earth in a year?
Probably many thousand such meteoroids strike the Earth's atmosphere per year, but only a tiny percentage make it through the atmosphere to land on the Earth. And since the Earth is 3/4 water, we figure that about 75% of all meteorites hit the ocean and sink.
Why don't small meteorites pulverize the Earth's surface like they do the Moon?
Small objects - and even some fairly large objects - that strike the Earth are heated to incandescence by friction and compression as they enter the Earth's atmosphere. Most such meteorites either explode harmlessly far above the ground or are vaporized entirely.
