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Do Meteors Ever Fall on Earth?
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Sometimes, crash fragments of a meteor, called meteorites, crash on to the surface of the Earth. Some are so big that they make craters where they fall. Many meteorites have been found on the Earth’s surface. The best known of these is the Barringer Impact Crater in Arizona, USA. This carter was created by an iron meteor that fell on the Earth about 50, 000 years ago. The meteor was almost 40 metres (130 feet) in diameter and slammed into the surface at a speed of about 11 kilometres per second (6.8 miles per second0, creating a crater that was more than a kilometre wide.
On 30 July, 1908, people living near Lake Baikal in Siberia saw a strange blush light travel across the sky, followed by a loud explosion and shockwaves that knocked people off their feet. The explosion caused by a meteor. If flattened about 80 million trees. The meteor may have broken up about 10 kilometres (6 miles) above the Earth’s surface, so it did not leave a crater.
On 30 July, 1908, people living near Lake Baikal in Siberia saw a strange blush light travel across the sky, followed by a loud explosion and shockwaves that knocked people off their feet. The explosion caused by a meteor. If flattened about 80 million trees. The meteor may have broken up about 10 kilometres (6 miles) above the Earth’s surface, so it did not leave a crater.
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