What would be happen if there is meteor rain today?

Answer 1

generally, anything smaller than a VW beetle will burn up completely. Small meteorites that are found are usually parts of a larger one that exploded on encountering the atmosphere at 10 km/sec or more.

Mind, one as large as a car would produce a fireball that would for an instance be as bright as the sun appears (remembering this thing is less than 100km away not 150 million like the sun), and will light up the night like day for an instant.

Once you get up to a few 10s of metres across, the fireball flash could burn you. Above 50m and the thing will scorch the grass and set light to trees, even though not a fragment reaches the ground.

The one that burst over Siberia in 1908 (Tunguska) was estimated to be about 60 metres wide (200 feet for you non-metric people). That exploded several kilometers above ground and laid waste to several thousand square kilometers of forest. It was a wilderness area, so little loss of life. But then by law of averages, Asia would catch most of these, as it is the biggest continent.

But the vast amount of meteoroids are dust and grain sized. If you see a shower, be enthralled, not scared.

Answer 2

Nothing. A meteor is a rock that burns up in the atmosphere. If a meteroite his the earth, it would depend on how bit it was and where it hit, but you could be looking at 10 story high tsunami, or a massive dust cloud that put's the world in to an ice age. (probably not a bad idea right about now with global warming)

Answer 3

In fact precipitation can be considered meteor rain. A meteorologist studies objects that fall from the sky to the ground. So it is meteor rain somewhere every day.

Answer 4

nothing really. Most meteors burn up in the atmosphere (shooting stars) and those that do make it to the earth aren't very big.

Answer 5

I hope, you won´t get hit by one. It coud hurt a little bit.