What are the effects of meteor showers?

Answer 1

Very little, apart from giving a few people some good reason to go searching in unpopulated areas.

They have also added to our knowledge of the early solar system and also the composition of Mars in the early stages of formation.

I suppose in a *very* small way they have added to the mass of the Earth - possibly a couple of tons per year, but we have "ejected" far more than that back into space.

Answer 2

Meteor showers can create bright streaks of light in the night sky as small particles burn up in Earth's atmosphere. They are a visually stunning natural phenomenon that can inspire awe and wonder in observers. Meteor showers can also provide valuable scientific data for researchers studying the composition of meteors and their origins.

Answer 3

A meteor will NEVER impact the Earth. The few that do impact Earth are called meteorites and pose no threat what so ever - bar maybe a broken window or a small depression on the ground. If hit by one, then it could be serious, but as for the Earth, it has survived bombardments so severe, that walking outside would be like you had walked into WWIII.

The Earth is not affected by meteors. Like water off of a ducks back.

Answer 4

A meteor shower does not intefere with the moonlight. In fact, moonlight interferes with meteor showers. When it is a moonlit night and very bright and there is a meteor shower, it is harder to see the meteors than it is on a darker night.

Answer 5

The only meteors on the moon are ones which have collided with the moons surface and left meteor craters.

This does not effect the earth or how we live.

However, it does show that in the past hundreds of very large meteors have collided with the moons surface and that gives us a picture of what could/will happen in the future.

Answer 6

The "average" meteor is about the size of a grain of rice, and burn up by the thousands every hour. They contribute dust to the atmosphere.

Every few years, larger meteors survive long enough to hit the Earth. Since the Earth is 3/4 water, most of them strike either the oceans or uninhabited areas. Sometimes they do strike populated areas; a small meteorite crashed through the roof of a doctor's office in New Jersey a few years ago, and a meteor about half the size of a pea struck a German schoolboy in the hand. (He was only slightly injured.)

Very rarely, much larger objects strike the Earth and cause enormous damage. The stories of "Noah's Flood" and the contemporaneous Sumerian Gilgamesh epics may have a root cause in a giant meteor that may have impacted in the Indian ocean about 5,500 years ago. The resulting tsunami would have inundated most of the Middle East and India, and the waves would have scoured western Australia and Madagascar.

And 65 million years ago, we believe that an asteroid or comet about 10 miles in length crashed into the Gulf of Mexico, resulting in the extinction of most large land animals including the dinosaurs.

Answer 7

That depends on the size of the meteorite, and where it hit. Generally, nothing; the average meteorite explodes in the atmosphere and small pieces fall harmlessly to the ground. And since the Earth is 3/4 water, about 3/4 of all meteorites hit the water and sink.

However, a large meteorite hitting land would probably cause a crater similar to the Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona. A large meteorite hitting in the oceans might cause a tsunami. A large asteroid or comet may have struck the Indian Ocean about 5000 years ago, giving us the legends of Noah's Great Flood and the Gilgamesh epic.

REALLY large meteorites might crack the crust of the Earth, causing magma from the Earth's mantle to be released.

Here's an average meteorite; it created a hole in the roof of a doctor's office. See the link below.

Answer 8

A good meteor shower is fantastic to watch. It is one of nature's fireworks displays. They can be fun to watch, trying to see as many as you can. While you are waiting for another meteor, you also get a chance to admire the wonders of the night sky, which is interesting in itself.

Answer 9

First when a meteor explodes it sends of gases. Eventually it will make the Earth hotter. If there is enought meteors it can melt glazzers, and if that happens the sea level will go up. This question was easy, I mean I'm in 7th grade and I can answer this question. =) Lol jk, but maybe you should just look things up in a science book or at the library.

Answer 10

Bright streaks of light in the sky lasting up to 2 seconds as the interplanetary dust burns up in the upper atmosphere.