Some of this debris crossed our planet's path, hitting the atmosphere at thousands of miles per hour, burning briefly in the cold, thin air and producing the spectacle we call meteors or shooting stars. Those that survive to land on the surface are known as meteorites....
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dangerous if it were possible to construct. We could disrupt the earth's orbit. It also would be vastly beyond our capability to construct something which would stop or reverse the incredibly powerful trajectory of a meteor. Some meteors are so massive and fast that they could obliterate us ...
A bolide is an object that originates in space and collides with the Earth or explodes in the atmosphere. Common types of bolide...
It's so neat to think that I'm looking at formations on the moon, that were created by meteors flying around in space -- things that have never had any contact with Earth. I'd love to go to the moon someday, and see those craters up close! By roxytalks — On Feb 12, 2011 ...