RE: Let's Learn Something Cool - Meteor Showers

[asaj]

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!

Comments

[ruth-girl]

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 :)

[svemirac]

"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 :)

1. Meteoroids - all sizes; when they enter the atmosphere they are meteors>
2. Meteors are objects that were small meteoroids that burns out in the atmosphere.
3. Meteorites are actually larger meteoroids that lose a large amount of mass but still some piece gets to earth, ranging from one millimeters to big chunks that made mass extinction of dinos.
   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 ;)

[asaj]

@svemirac @ruth-girl thanks for the clarification guys. You guys are amazing. :)