do astroids enter earths atmosphere alot, or just once in a hundred years....please read the following.?

Question

Would you be able to hear a meteor growl?? or would whatever be growling entering our atmosphere.....be a astroid? please answer this question for me. my mom was walking home from work, and she heard a growling noise from the sky, she wasnt sure so she looked up, and there was what she thaught was a b-52 bomber and 7 fighter jet's following it....she said she kept looking and it wasnt very long she was looking...and they were gone. When she got home from work, she told me that whatever she seen was really light blue and a pale red....also the littler ones were flickering and went out. i remember watching armagedon, with bruce willis. this brings up ALOT of questions about space. i know i was a little bit freaked out when mom told me she seen this, if it is a astriod is oit or did it do any damage??? we guessed that it would probably hit down in australia. i dont think that you can hear a meteor enter earths' astriod. i've seen meteor showers and it didnt sound like fighter jet's.

Answer 1

some theories state that asterois or comets hit the earth all of the time, most disintegrate in the atmosphere and do no damage whatsoever on the ground.

an asteroid or comet coming throuh the atmosphere could make a sound, possibly like a growl. however there would also be a trail of smoke and it would light up the place somewhat.

is there an airbase near where your mom saw the objects? a B-52 is a very recognizeable jet. that the little ones flickered and went out would seem to indicate that it was an asteroid and those were smaller pieces of it that fizzled out in the atmosphere.

odds are if it was an asteroid it vapourized before it hit the ground or it hit in the ocean, odds are no damage was done.

the meteors in meteor showers are just tiny specks of dust bigger ones can make sounds,, as anything ripping throuh the atmosphere will do.

i hope this helps, feel free to contact me again if you need something explained better and i will do my best :-)

Answer 2

do astroids enter earths atmosphere alot. The astroids mostly stay within a belt between Mars and Jupiter. But yes, Meteors (from both the astroid belt and other parts of space) do enter the earths atmosphere every hour of every day, but 99.99% of them are small enough to burn up before they get down to 100,000 or so feet above the earth. In the USA, when a meteor is big enough to hit the ground, it makes all the local papers. I remember a month or so ago there was a story about a meteor hitting a house and making a 1 foot diamter hold in the roof and floor of the second story. Then a few years ago, one went through the trunk of a car in New Jersey. So its not very often one hits and does damage. Can you hear it? I would think they would travel faster than sound so if it entered the atmosphere at a 90 degree angle and traveled straight down, you would not hear it, but if it hit at a shallow angle, and it went across the sky without losing too much altitute, like a fast enough jet plane, you would hear its sonic boom.

Answer 3

Meteors are liable to do most anything. I saw one explode like a 4th of July firework, but in complete silence. Others can whistle, whine, and make all manner of noises. Not sure what a 'growl' would sound like, but I'd believe it. Tiny meteors are constantly falling into our atmosphere. Most of them never make it to the ground. Small ones hit the ground several times a day. But most do no damage at all. I once found one only about 1/2 in diameter in a school yard. Big ones that can do damage only hit about once a year or so. One such meteor smashed through some lady's car. The really big ones like what make Crater Lake happen every few thousand years. And dinosaur killers happen maybe every hundred thousand years. Fortunately, Jupiter and Saturn clear those out of the solar system more often than not. Remember that multiple strike on Jupiter a few years back? If it hadn't hit Jupiter, we might still be at risk from it. But big planets have big gravity wells. You might say that's why they're there!

Answer 4

Many asteroids enter earth's atmosphere every year. The majority of them burn up before hitting the actual earth. Some little ones still get through, but for the most part they are turned into ash. There have been cases of large asteroids hitting the earth. There is a huge crater in the desert in Arizona (or is it New Mexico) made by a very large asteroid.
I'm sure that anything plummeting that fast from outer space will make some sort of noise. Birds make noise when they fly, why not growling asteroids.

Answer 5

Meteors enter the earths atmosphere all of the time. Most are small and burn up immediately upon entry. There are some spectacular meteor showers and I have included a link for some that are due in 2007.

Answer 6

"Asteroids" consist of rocks and debris that hang out in space, mostly b/t Jupiter and Mars. "Meteors" are dust and debris that get pulled into Earth's gravity; 99.99% of this stuff burns up as it enters the atmosphere, and if you were close enough, it's reasonable to expect that you would hear it like you hear a sonic boom. If they are big enough to endure the high-speed trip through our atmosphere, they hit the ground (or plop in the ocean), in which case they are called "meterorites."
This happens rarely, they are actually found even more rarely, and witnessed even more rarely.

Answer 7

If it grow to be going ninety 9.ninety 9 % p.c. the speed of light (the fastest plausible % in accordance to physics), the speed would truly tear a hollow through Earth which may then proceed to break down aside. the ambience would crumple to boot so if the meteor, lava, earthquakes, tsunamis, ect. did not kill you, the shortcoming of oxygen and gravity would. fortuitously, the in trouble-free terms way it may well be going that quick will be through both utilising a black hollow's gravity and some human/alien interference (the human/alien will require actually infinite potential) to catapult it, or through disproving quantum mechanics and travelling through a black hollow (first an extra beneficial in all probability).