I got this question from my Math-teacher, but he also told me that this problem was still way outta my league( I'm 15).
2006-10-31 09:53:10 · 10 answers · asked by ArktiK 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
I got this question from my Math-teacher, but he told me it was still way outta my league(I'm 15.) Also, try to explain how you got the answer.
2006-10-31 09:58:11 · update #1
I got this question from my Math-teacher, but he told me it was still way outta my league(I'm 15.) Also, try to explain how you got the answer.
Okay, to get a few things straight, I'm Dutch so my English is very poor and I transalted the Dutch word for meteorite wrong=> Change meteor for meteorite.
Furthermore, it hits the Earth perpendicular and he told me something like, it doesnt have a particular orbit, it could come from anywhere( I know, he's a d**k sometimes).
2006-10-31 10:09:08 · update #2
The salient question is perpendicular to what?
If he means perpendicular to the ground, then it's malarkey. Meteors hit the ground at any hour of the day and night, and they all tend to be going pretty close to straight down when they hit because of gravity and wind resistance (there are exceptions, of course).
If he uses enough perpendiculars to exclude all but one time zone on the Earth, then you could probably tell, but then the meteor doesn't really have much to do with anything, other than the fact that it's in space and can fall in.
Link below is a list of times of recorded meteors, demonstrating that any hour you can pick has a meteor falling.
2006-10-31 09:59:22 · answer #1 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
about 4am. this is the time in the place below where the metor is seen.
The meteor's veocity before it gets close to earth is pretty slow, and it is almost perpendicular to the earth's obit. This is because most meteors are remnants of the tails of comets, which have very elongated orbits.
So, picture a meteoroid at rest, and then the earth, on its orbit around the sun, comes and smashes into it. This is what happens with the vast majority of the meteors that you see.
A meteor will hit the earth perpendicular if the earth(the part of it that you are on) is pointed so that "up" for you is tangent to (in the same direction as)the earth's orbit around the sun. traveling around the sun. I don't quite know how to figure this out, but I remember that this happens about 3-4 am.
People who are into astronomy say that this is the best time to view meteor showers.
2006-10-31 18:55:37 · answer #2 · answered by Shadow Fish 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think your teacher is pulling your leg. In order to answer the question you would need to know the trajectory (or orbit) of the meteor - and this could be completely arbitrary.
If you consider restricting the problem to meteors which are orbiting the sun in the same plane as the earth and that the speed of the meteor is faster than the earth (relative to the sun, thus meteor is at the closer end of an eliptical solar orbit), then it is possible it could hit perpendicur 90 degrees from the side of the earth facing the sun (noon) 90 degrees from noon is either 6AM or 6PM, to determine which you have to figure out which way the earth is orbiting the sun, and which way the earth is spinning on its axis.
2006-10-31 18:03:10 · answer #3 · answered by Leonardo D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your meteor hits Earth perpendicularly: it is impact time. and depending on the size of the object that impacts it could be the end of time as we know it. This is a think problem, that stinks. I used them when I was a teacher at the university.
Plus your English is breathy good,
2006-10-31 18:20:02 · answer #4 · answered by zipper 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
assuming the metor comes in at the elliptic, the time would be 12 midnight at an equinox. When the day and night are of the same length and the earth is vetical to the elliptic.
2006-10-31 22:38:10 · answer #5 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when meteors hit the earth they are called meteorites. so, technically a meteor can never hit the earth. only meteorites do. i think he's asking you a trick question
2006-10-31 18:04:17 · answer #6 · answered by justforthisonepost 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
must be sunset or sunrise since most meteors follow an orbit similar to Earth.
2006-10-31 17:56:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time to get the hell out of there! Don't tell me it's 12 noon either.
2006-10-31 17:56:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask your teacher..."What time is it where??" (serious)...I am a teacher and would expect this response from my brighter students.
2006-10-31 17:59:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
:) If it hits probably it is Jugment day
2006-10-31 18:12:46 · answer #10 · answered by come2turkey:) 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋