Meteors

In the article ,"Meteors", by Brad Bell and Kyle Butler portrays of how meteors  can be very dangerous and disaster able. Meteors can cause a lot of destruction if it wasn't for us having a atmosphere. Our atmosphere is like a shield because when a meteor enters our atmosphere it breaks it down to very small pieces. But if it doesn't in the article it says,"If a meteor breaks through the Earth's atmosphere, does not burn up completely, and hits the Earth's surface, it is called a meteorite. Over 100 meteorites hit the Earth each year; fortunately, most are very small. The larger meteorites come from the asteroids in the Asteroid Belt. Some of the smaller meteorites are moon rocks, while others are pieces of Mars." This shows that meteors have hit earth but not very big one because they got through the atmosphere. Meteors can be very nice to see when there is a meteor shower over earth or seeing a shooting star. Those are the only way I'd prefer to see them and the safest way.    http://www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings/Meteor.htm