Almost 10,000 meteorites hit Earth every year
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How many meteorites hit Earth every year? Fewer than 10,000, but is it dangerous for living organisms? Find it out here.
Have you seen a shooting star? Well these are not exactly stars but are burning rocks from space that enter the Earth's atmosphere. According to the information provided by the American Meteor Society (AMS), Meteoroids are the smallest members of the solar system and whenever a meteoroid plows into the Earth's atmosphere, it will create a brief flash of moving light in the sky, called a meteor (which appears to be a shooting stars). If remnants of the parent meteoroid survive the trip through the atmosphere to reach the ground, then these remnants are called meteorites.
But how many meteorites hit t...