Several thousands of meteors hit the Earth each day. Most of them are the size of a grain of rice or smaller. A few each day may be the size of a baseball or occasionally the size of a Basketball.
Once a week or so, the Earth is hit by a rock the size of a car, and once every few months, we get hit by something the size of a house. A couple of months ago, a meteor the size of a house exploded over central Indonesia; it scared a lot of folks, but apparently did no damage.
The VAST majority of these burn up completely in the atmosphere, surviving as nothing but dust. A few do make it to the Earth, often in small (fist-sized) chunks. Very few do any damage. Only a few people are known to have been hit by a meteorite; there was a boy in Germany last year who was struck in the hand by a meteorite the size of a pea. And how would you have liked to explain to YOUR insurance company that your new car was destroyed when a meteorite punched down through the roof and buried itself in your driveway? It happened!
Every few hundred years, bigger things hit the Earth, and some do a lot of damage. In 1908, a meteor or small comet exploded high in the atmosphere near a place called Tunguska, Siberia, causing an explosion the size of a nuclear bomb. 5000 years ago, a meteor struck in the Indian ocean causing a tsunami, which may be the source of the "Great Flood" legends in Gilgamesh and Noah's Ark. 14000 years ago, something hit northern Canada causing the "Younger Dryas" mini-ice age.
It's called a "meteoroid" when it is out in space. When it enters the Earth's atmosphere and is heated to incandescence, the bright streak of light is called a "meteor".
If the object survives the fiery passage through the atmosphere and hits the ground, it is called a "meteorite".
We are not currently aware of any specific meteoroids or asteroids that are on a path to hit the Earth.
Not recordedly but you never know - watch out!
A meteor hit the Earth in the Ural mountains of Russia, near the city of Chelyabinsk, in February 2013.
The Earth is NOT going to be hit by a meteor on that date, unlike what some people would lead you to think. If a meteor was going to hit, we would have known about it months or possibly years before, and it would be getting constant news coverage.
Yes, meteors hit everyday, but burn up in are atmosphere
A meteor hit the earth in the mesozic era
Not recordedly but you never know - watch out!
A meteor hit the Earth in the Ural mountains of Russia, near the city of Chelyabinsk, in February 2013.
We are safe.
The ones that hit the earth are called meteorites.
The Earth is NOT going to be hit by a meteor on that date, unlike what some people would lead you to think. If a meteor was going to hit, we would have known about it months or possibly years before, and it would be getting constant news coverage.
It is called a meteorite.
Meteor. Meteorites are the ones that do hit Earth.
No, because that meteor already hit the earth.
Yes, meteors hit everyday, but burn up in are atmosphere
Once it hits the Earth, we call the pieces "meteorites".
A meteor hit the earth in the mesozic era
The earth and moon.