is it true that a meteor is going to hit earth oct 30th?

Question

i ment the 21 or 22

Answer 1

yes ,so start your last few weeks of total mayhem.

Answer 2

Meteors hit all the time. They are just streaks of light in the sky which can be seen at night (shooting stars). They are small (somewhere between a grain of sand and a small pebble) and burn up at around 80 - 100km high.

Meteorites, on the other hand, are what happens when meteoroids are very big and manage to get through the Earth's atmosphere without burning up. These cause craters, or a very large splash if they hit the oceans.

It can never be guaranteed when one will hit. Even if we see one coming and map its trajectory, there is a huge change that it will encounter something that will change its direction (the moon's gravity, dust in the solar system etc...)

There is a very small change of being hit.

To sum up, no there isn't one coming. When there is, and people know about it, you'll know because the every person on Earth will be looting and building bomb shelters.

Answer 3

As a matter of fact several thousand meteors will hit the Earth on October 30th. The Earth gets hit all the time by meteors. Little itsy bitsy grains of sand sized meteors that you can see in the night sky every single night as shooting stars. The big giant, kill everyone on the planet meteor won't hit until 2753, on June 4th. I'm not going to worry about that one.

Answer 4

Yes, it is absolutely sure.... meteors hit the Earth every day.

however, here is the data for some future close approaches for the next couple of weeks

object date au ld mass velocity
(2005 TF49) 2006-Oct-19 0.0558 21.7 390 m - 880 m 12.89
(2006 TL) 2006-Oct-20 0.0481 18.7 43 m - 96 m 13.04
(2001 UP) 2006-Oct-22 0.0315 12.3 20 m - 44 m 9.14
(2006 UN) 2006-Oct-22 0.0438 17.1 20 m - 46 m 3.83
(2002 JV15) 2006-Oct-25 0.0821 32.0 420 m - 930 m 13.17
(2000 UR16) 2006-Oct-25 0.0639 24.9 56 m - 130 m 16.26
(2004 TD10) 2006-Oct-26 0.2000 77.8 100 m - 230 m 16.61
(2006 TS7) 2006-Oct-31 0.1258 49.0 170 m - 370 m 14.31
(2005 SE71) 2006-Nov-05 0.1020 39.7 670 m - 1.5 km 13.17

Answer 5

There is going to be a meteor shower this weekend and it will be most intense a midnight. Because they are so small they will most definitely burn up in the earths atmosphere and be visible as shooting stars. Don't worry, just watch the beauty of burning space junk.

Answer 6

Yes. I've already loaded up my space rocket and am ready to take off by Wednesday of next week.

By the way, I'm a little low on cash. Can you spare me a few bucks to help gas up my rocket? I won't make it outside of orbit unless I get some extra fuel.

Don't want to be in a permanent orbit and circle the planet for the next millennium.

Answer 7

Meteors hit the earth quite a lot! They are too small to do much damage.

Answer 8

There is one scheduled to just miss us in 30 years from now but 7 years from that it might hit earth depending on how earth's gravity effects its path. The astroid is about 30m wide and enough to put the human race is serious jeopardy if it strikes but there are more immedite issues that we have to deal with like humans blowing other humans up (terror war)

Answer 9

Possibly, but you are more likely -- statistically -- to be struck by lightning on October 30 than a meteor falling to earth on that day.

Answer 10

Yep. Little meteors hit the Earth everyday. If you are asking about a big one that could actually cause damage, we don't know. I haven't heard anything about that.

Answer 11

Of course!

Meteors hit the earth every day.