A rocky meteoroid is on a collision course with planet Earth. The meteoroid is only 0.10 m in diamete The meteoroid will most li

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kely not reach the surface of the Earth because

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Anon25 [30] · Answer 1 · 2022-01-18T11:13:16+03:00

they would be melted and vaporized in the atmosphere.

Explanation:

Meteoroids is piece of solar rock before it strikes the earth surface. Meteorites are rocks that strikes the surface of the earth from space.

In earth science, meteorite impacts are often attributed with mass extinctions on the earth surface.
For a meteorite to reach the earth surface, it must has a very large diameter.
This big rocky mass must be able to escape the earth geomagnetic field and the ionizing radiation in the upper reaches of the earth atmosphere.
Meteoroids of smaller sizes cannot escape the earth's atmosphere and would completely ionized and melted.

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