One already has. A fairly sizable meteor, the largest in over 100 years, entered the atmosphere and broke up over Chelyabinsk, Russia on February 15, 2013 with fragment striking the ground in open country.
Thousands of meteors enter earth's atmosphere every year, but most never each the ground. This is a decent chance, though, that some other small fragments from other meteors will hit earth in 2013.
A meteor hit the Earth in the Ural mountains of Russia, near the city of Chelyabinsk, in February 2013.
The ones that hit the earth are called meteorites.
It is called a meteorite.
Meteor. Meteorites are the ones that do hit Earth.
No, because that meteor already hit the earth.
Once it hits the Earth, we call the pieces "meteorites".
A meteor hit the earth in the mesozic era
There was one significant asteroid impact in 1908 - the Tunguska event. It is possible that smaller asteroids hit Earth after that. There was a smaller asteroid/meteor impact more recently - the Chelyabinsk event in 2013.
A Meteor hit the earth and destroyed everything
The earth and moon.
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no proof of what happened, but if it was a meteor, parts could have hit off onto the moon.