Space Meteor

Here s what will happen.

Space meteor. 20 1966 photo provided by the san diego air and space museum shows an atlas centaur 7 rocket on the launchpad at cape canaveral fla. Meteoroids are significantly smaller than asteroids and range in size from small grains to one meter wide objects. The celestial object known as 2018vp1 is projected to come close to earth on november 2 according to the center for near earth objects studies at nasa s jet propulsion laboratory.

What we see is a shooting star that bright streak is not actually the rock but rather the glowing hot air as the hot rock zips through the atmosphere. In a first for the space agency the van size spacecraft will try to swipe space souvenirs to bring home to earth. An asteroid is due to pass extremely close to earth just ahead of election day in november.

Nasa s leading asteroid expert paul chodas. Objects smaller than this are classified as micrometeoroids or space dust. Meteors meteors also known as shooting stars are pieces of dust and debris from space that burn up in earth s atmosphere where they can create bright streaks across the night sky.

As the space rock falls toward earth the resistance or drag of the air on the rock makes it extremely hot. Nasa s osiris rex about to land on asteroid bennu. A meteoroid ˈmiːtiərɔɪd is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space.

Nasa s leading asteroid expert paul chodas. But there s no reason to worry nasa says this space rock poses no risk to our planet. Collected data will.

A meteor is a space rock or meteoroid that enters earth s atmosphere. A meteor is what happens when a meteoroid a small piece of an asteroid or comet burns up upon entering earth s atmosphere creating a streak of light in the sky.