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Gravity. Meteors are nothing more than "falling rocks".

There are probably BILLIONS of stray rocks floating around in space. Many of them are in the vague region between Mars and Jupiter known as the "Asteroid Belt", but that still leaves plenty of things floating around in space between the planets. Some of them get close to the Earth, and some of them hit us.

Most are small, but a few times per year, larger things hit; and every few centuries or so, something large enough to cause significant damage hits the Earth.

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