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RE: Let's Learn Something Cool - Meteor Showers
You accuse me of not reading, but I read every word.
Meteorites are very big, rocky masses that hit the Earth and leave a crater as a souvenir.
So it is possible for a meteorite to hit the Earth surface and leave a crater. I hope a large one big enough to create such crater as depicted in the image never fall again.
Anyways, meteoroids are different from Meteorites.
Meteoroids never touch the surface of the earth in an extremely massive form but meteorites can. ;)
Cheers!
Well, from your comment I got that you understood something wrong, because meteorites fall on earth every year, they are just not so common.
Have a great day! And thank you for your time :)
"Meteorites are very big, rocky masses that hit the Earth and leave a crater as a souvenir." - We were all right at the same time, with a small misunderstanding.
Well, I feel obligated to defend honor of us all. So I will try to put it in few lines :)
4)Fireballs are meteors that go into the atmosphere too steep so they burn out and explode with a bang (you can google: Tunguska event)
some small meteorites
image taken from planetbrey.com/meteorite_images/pultuskpeas_thumb.jpg
All the best ;)
@svemirac @ruth-girl thanks for the clarification guys. You guys are amazing. :)