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Right about .... NOW. And again ...... NOW. Meteors strike the Earth tens of thousands of times per day. Most are tiny, the size of a grain of sand, and burn up completely in the atmosphere. In fact, "meteor" is the word for the streak of light we see in the sky when a space rock (or grain of space sand) hits the atmosphere and burns up.

A few times per day, larger things hit the Earth, and explode with spectacular - or rarely, catastrophic - results. On Saturday, July 30, 2010, a meteor exploded over Santa Fe, New Mexico with a fireball brighter than the full moon. See the related link below!

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