goodness gracious great balls of fire

Why do you have so many posts asking the same questions? Do you have like six posts about friction now? Two about meteorites and friction? It's not very polite.

and and the question is...

What did the monkey say when he slid down the telephone pole?

Tell him what he's won Johnny.

im sorry if i put alot of posts everyone was asleep when i was like typing them obviously coz of time difference.. i was all alone

Most of the asteroids are in stable (near circular) orbits between Mars and Jupiter. Quite rare collisions occur and some of the debis gets a new orbit that cross the plane of Earth's Orbit. Near misses of Earth, the moon, Venus and Mars change the orbit again so collision with Earth occurs 1 to 1000 orbit later. Just before the collision Earth's gravity speeds up the fragment (which might be as large as 8 killometers and as fast as 15 miles per second = 54000 miles per hour) After they enter Earth's atmosphere the big ones are called meteors and the small ones meteoritites. Large or small, the surface collides with air molecules, converting them and some of the surface atoms to plasma, which produces the streak of light we call a shooting star. Slower objects such as airplanes don't make plasma, but the surface and the air is heated by the air friction. Perhaps someone can explain why heat is produced. Neil

thanx that definetly helps !!!