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Several thousands. Most of them are the size of a grain of rice or smaller. A few each day may be the size of a baseball or occasionally the size of a Basketball.

Once a week or so, the Earth is hit by a rock the size of a car, and once every few months, we get hit by something the size of a house. A couple of months ago, a meteor the size of a house exploded over central Indonesia; it scared a lot of folks, but apparently did no damage.

The VAST majority of these burn up completely in the atmosphere, surviving as nothing but dust. A few do make it to the Earth, often in small (fist-sized) chunks. Very few do any damage. Only a few people are known to have been hit by a meteorite; there was a boy in Germany last year who was struck in the hand by a meteorite the size of a pea.

Every few hundred years, bigger things hit the Earth, and some do a lot of damage. In 1908, a meteor or small comet exploded high in the atmosphere near a place called Tunguska, Siberia, causing an explosion the size of a nuclear bomb. 5000 years ago, a meteor struck in the Indian ocean causing a tsunami, which may be the source of the "Great Flood" legends in Gilgamesh and Noah's Ark. 14000 years ago, something hit northern Canada causing the "Younger Dryas" mini-ice age.

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Approximately 50 tons of meteoritic material enter Earth's atmosphere every day, but most of it burns up before reaching the surface. Only a small fraction survives and makes it to the ground as meteorites.

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12y ago

Several, but it would be difficult to be specific. It's different every day, of course.
That would be impossible to answer, as it is not a constant figure.

About 500 meteorites hit the Earth earth year, so that's less than 2 a day. As most meteorites are about the size of a marble, it's unlikely to weigh more than a pound or two. So in tons, that's about 0.001 tonnes.

However, if on that "day" a very large meteorite hit the Earth - that figure would change dramatically. The largest known meteorite weighs 15 tons.

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16y ago

140,000,000 meteriods enter the earth's atmosphere each day.

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15y ago

Thousands each day. Most of them are tiny; the size of grains of sand or grains of rice. Only a few dozen per day are as big as a Baseball, and only a few per week are substantially larger.

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11y ago

About 20 tons a day. not sure How many micrometeorites a day though.

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11y ago

A BIG LARGE WHOPPING HUGE WHOPPING SCHLOPPING 40 TONS.

"barely any"

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15y ago

On average, probably a couple of tons. Hardly any.

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40 Tons per day

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About 20-40 tons, barely any.

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