... If every piece still impacts the Earth (by that I mean actually is stopped by the Earth or its atmosphere) you are still dumping all the kinetic energy of The Comet into the Earth'satmosphere! ...
... Doubling the Earth's distance from the Sun will only drop the mean temperature by about 50 degrees Celsius (the Earth's average temperature is about 310 degrees Kelvin or 10 Celsius. 310/1.18=260, a 50 degree drop. ...
... came in from outer space, went through our atmosphere and curved back out again ... that since it "broke free of Earth's gravity", it could not have been natural either ... First off, meteors do indeed skip off the atmosphere. ...
... causes the Moon to blast out of Earth's orbit, stranding a group of people on a ... you really blast the Moon from the Earth's orbit? (well, no), how many planets are ... With the atmosphere so grim, I decided to simply be myself and make jokes. ...
... However, rocky ones tend to explode very high in the atmosphere due to pressure effects-- the shock of passing through the atmosphere at high velocity breaks the rock up, which gives it more surface area, which makes it break up faster, until KABOOM! ...
... to drop a probe into Jupiter'satmosphere to measure its physical characteristics ... meteor, it'll burn up in the dense atmosphere, and become a part of the solar system ...
... This is because the Earth is curved, and the atmosphere curves with it (see the diagram to the left, or click it to see the ... The Earth's air does a lot of stuff to sunlight, including scattering the blue light out of it, making the sky look blue. ...