What would you do if a meteor came to earth?

Answer 1

It depends on the size of the meteorite. Little meteorites hit Earth thousands of times a day, things the size of a grain of dust or so. Larger ones, the size of a grain of rice, burn up in the atmosphere hundreds of times each day.

Larger ones, perhaps as big as a Baseball, hit our planet every few weeks, and more rarely really large ones land. The one that made Arizona's "Meteor Crater" was probably the size of a big building, about 150 feet tall.

Of course, bigger things have hit the Earth before; it was probably an asteroid or comet that wiped out the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago.

Answer 2

Depends on the size of the meteor, and where it hits.

If you were hit directly you'd die from only a small chunk.

The farther away, the bigger an impact you'd survive, pretty much up to the point where the meteorite becomes big enough to have a global impact.

Answer 3

Everybody on the Earth would be having their WORST BAD DAY EVER.

Depending on the size of the meteorite, it could cause local catastrophe or the damage could be more widespread. Meteoroids and small asteroids 50 feet in diameter smack into the Earth every century or so; in 1908, one crashed into Siberia near a town called Tunguska; The explosion was heard a thousand miles away, and it caused a blast equivalent to a nuclear bomb. Bigger ones caused Meteor Crater in Arizona, or may have caused the Younger Dryas mini-ice age of 14,500 years ago. We suspect that a fairly large rock smashed into the Indian ocean about 4500 years ago, causing massive tsunamis all around the Indian Ocean, including Madagascar and Australia. Australian "Dream Time" legends seem to tell of the Gods striking the ocean. And coincidentally, the Sumerian legends of Gilgamesh and the Biblical account of Noah and the Flood could be describing similar tsunami events.

Of course, a REALLY BIG rock, about 10 miles in diameter, is believed to have killed off the dinosaurs - and 65% of all life on Earth - about 65 million years ago. The geological record includes mass extinction events about every 25 million years or so.

Answer 4

It depends on the size of the meteor. Most will disintegrate on impact, causing some local damage, but others can have catastrophic outcomes. It is now believed that a meteor impact, off the coast of Mexico, threw up so much debris into the upper atmosphere that the resulting climatic disruption caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. The meteorite itself is thought to be buried in a crater that it made in the bay of Mexico.

In 1908, there was an impact by comet or meteor in the Tunguska Region of Eastern Siberia. It is thought that the bolide exploded at low altitude (5 to 10 km) rather than actually hit the earth and no impact crater has been found. However, it is classified as an impact event. The explosion, flattened 2000 square kilometres of forest.

Answer 5

If a meteor were detected heading towards Earth, scientists and space agencies would likely work together to determine its trajectory and potential impact. Depending on the size and trajectory of the meteor, action may include deflecting it with a spacecraft or preparing evacuation procedures for areas at risk of impact.

Answer 6

everyone freakin burns and dies baby peace

Answer 7

How big? Where? In the ocean or on land? In a city or in the middle of a desert? It could wipe out the human race, or it could be just a minor catastrophe ... its all chance.

Answer 8

Happens all the time. relax.

Answer 9

Both will burn eventually ...