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[ad_1] Peekskill meteorite had slammed into a car back in 1992 with a speed of 14.16 kmps. Know what had happened. You must have seen a streak of light passing in the night sky a number of times. These so-called ‘shooting stars,” have different names depending on how they reach the Earth. NASA explains that meteorites are objects in space that range in size from dust grains to small asteroids. Consider them as “space rocks." Occasionally, these space rocks enter Earth's atmosphere to burn up and they can be seen as fireballs or “shooting stars”, which are known as meteors. However, in case, a meteoroid survives the travel through the atmosphere and hits the ground on Earth then it's called a meteorite, NASA explained. But do you know, there is a famous Meteorite named Peekskill w...