Meteorite Falls In Rajasthan : Meaning - Difference - Asteroid - Meteoride - Meteorite - Meteor

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Meteorite-like object fall from sky in Rajasthan, leaves residents confound.

On the morning of 19th June 2020, meteorite-like object weighing around 2.78 kilogram fall from the sky on Friday morning in Sanchore town in Jalore district of Rajasthan. The object fall with such force and heat that it resulted in the formation of one-foot deep pit in the ground. According to the local administration, an explosion was heard up to the range of 2 kilometres. Even 3-4 hours after it hit the ground the object was emiting heat. The local officials got it tested in a private lab located at a jeweller's shop in Sanchore. 

This object contains -
  • 10.23% of Nickel
  • 85.56% of Iron
  • 0.5% of Platinum
  • Traces of Germanium, Antimony, Niobium and others.
Geologist at geographical survey of India will examine it further.


It is important to know the difference between asteroid, meteorite, meteor and meteoride -

Asteroid - An asteroid is a relatively small body (that is not a comet), usually Rocky or metallic composed of dirt and ice. Most are from the asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. They range in size from nearly 1000 kilometres across, to microscopic dust particles. Collisions within the belt can send objects hurtling towards Earth.

Meteoride - Small asteroids are also called meteoroids.

Meteor - when an asteroid or meteoroid enters the atmosphere and streaks through the sky, it then becomes known as meteor. At high speed they burn up (visible=meteor). This is what we call shooting star or falling star.

Meteorite - When a meteoroid survives a trip through the atmosphere and hits the ground, it's called a meteorite. Anything that survives the impact is a meteorite. (Ex- lonar lake in Maharashtra).

How many meteors reach Earth?
Tiny rocks enter Earth's atmosphere nearly everyday, but burn up unnoticed. Larger impacts are rare. NASA says that an object the size of a car should hit Earth every year. Large asteroid are expected to hit Earth once every 2000 years. The most damaging meteorite strikes in recent times was the Tunguska event, a megaton scale explosion that destroyed a swathe of Siberian forest in 1908.

Can you be hit by a falling space rock?
There are no confirmed reports by a human death been caused by a rocks from space. The  vast majority of Earth's surface is unpopulated, so the odds of something landing on your head are small. Asteroids monitors believe they have identified 90% of the really huge rocks with the potential to hit Earth.

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