Comets and Asteroids The colossal Siberian blast

Comets and Asteroids The colossal Siberian blast 

 Do meteors ever fall on Earth? 
On 30 July 1908 individuals living close Lake Baikal in Siberia sawA Sometimes little pieces of a meteor, an odd somewhat blue light travel over the sky, trailed by a boisterous called shooting stars, crash on to the surface blast and shockwaves that thumped individuals off their feet. of the Earth. Some are big to the point that they make The blast occurred close to the Stony Tunguska River and was holes where they fall. Numerous shooting stars have most likely caused by a meteor. It straightened around 80 million trees. been found on the Earth's surface. The best The meteor may have distressed over 10 kilometers (6 miles) known about these is the Barringer Impact over the Earth's surface, so it didn't leave a hole. 

Pit in Arizona, USA. This hole was made by an iron meteor that fell on the Earth around 50,000 years back. The meteor 
was very nearly 40 meters (130 feet) in width also, hammered into the surface at a speed of around 11 kilometers for each second (6.8 miles every second), making a cavity that was more than a kilometer wide. 

Colossal pit 
The Barringer affect cavity in the USA was made by a shooting star affect 50,000 years prior. 
General guest 

 Where do comets originate from? 
Halley's Comet circles around the Sun once like clockwork, and is A Comets start in two unique regions 
of the close planetary system. Comets from the Kuiper Belt past Neptune are called brief period, since it requires them less investment than other 
Attempt these as well… 

comets to circumvent the Sun. Comets from The Sun (10– 11), 

the Oort Cloud take up to 30 million The Planets (12– 13), 
a long time to finish one circle and are in this manner People in Space 

called extensive stretch comets. There are about a (24– 25), Earth's Air (26– 27), 

trillion comets in the Oort Cloud. The Oort Logical Revolution Cloud itself is at the edge of the nearby planetary group, 
(150– 151), Forces and 
very nearly a fourth of the route from the Sun to 
Movement (190– 191) 
the following star, Proxima Centauri. 
the most well known comet 
in mankind's history.