The headline writers would prefer a comet to a meteor surely?

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Technically, no, it couldn't. Meteors burn up and vaporise in the upper atmosphere.

A chunk which is solid enough to make ground level is called a meteorite.

Halley is ing the poll

Have you been voting with all fifteen of your logins to corrupt the vote Mick?

Very good

So that's a yes then

I voted just the once

What you meant is;

With the speed of the impact, they'd probably have to go to the video ref so that he could do it frame-by-frame.

It is not impossible to be hit by a meteorite. Only a dozen or so make it to Earth's surface each day so your odds of being hit are vanishingly small, but not non-existent. A certain Mrs. Hewlett Hodges of Alabama is the only known human to have been struck by a meteorite, although it did go through her house roof and bounced off her radio first.

It is not recorded whether she caught it, or knocked on.

Platty would have caught it