FOUR asteroids will skim past Earth tomorrow in a series of close flybys, according to Nasa. The space rocks are travelling up to 57,000mph and the largest of the bunch is as tall as the Empire Sta…
FOUR asteroids will skim past Earth tomorrow in a series of close flybys, according to Nasa.
If a meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere, it begins to vapourise and then becomes a meteor. On Earth, it'll look like a streak of light in the sky, because the rock is burning upIf a meteoroid doesn't vapourise completely and survives the trip through Earth's atmosphere, it can land on the Earth. At that point, it becomes a meteoriteLike asteroids, a comet orbits the Sun.
That could change in the coming months or years, however, as the space agency constantly revises objects' predicted trajectories.
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