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They are hitting air molecules at a high speed and breaking them apart, which produces a lot of heat.
Lydia Schulist
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∙ 16y agoThey do, all the time. They just usually disintegrate from the impact/friction with the atmosphere before they get to the ground. Some have hit and left craters several miles wide, one believed to be what caused a mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs.
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∙ 10y agoActually they do. But really large meteors are much less common than smaller ones.
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1) A "meteor" is, by definition, the steak of light you see in the sky caused by a "meteoroid".
A "meteorite" is the thing that reaches the ground.
Large meteorites are indeed rare.
2) Besides meteorites, large objects that hit the Earth may be asteroids or perhaps comets.
3) Large impacts happen rarely, but they do seem to have happened during the long history of planet Earth.
The extinction of the dinosaurs was probably caused (at least in part) by a large asteroid impact.
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∙ 8y agoFor us on Earth, it appears really big. But on the cosmic scale, we are a small dot in space. So the chances of a random meteoroid hitting us is very small.
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∙ 7y agoMost meteors are so small that they are completely vaporized during their passage through the atmosphere.
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∙ 10y agoSmaller meteorites will burn up in the atmosphere.
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∙ 15y agoThe Earth's atmosphere.
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A cloud cover after sunset will stop the day's warmth from escaping into space.
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if you are HITTING a deer in Indiana then you should probably stop.
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hit them first
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Stop hitting them. That would be a good place to start.
