What are the chances a meteor from the meteor shower will touch down somewhere?

Question

I think a meteor would make a cool souvenir from the show.

Answer 1

Probably none will touch down.  But since they are tiny - like a grain of sand, how would you find one?

But there is speculation that a chunk of comet Enke landed in Tunguska in 1908.  The comet's orbital path intersects the Earth at that time, and debris would have been coming from the direction that the meteor was seen to arrive.  Not everyone is convinced.  Perhaps another expedition could nail it with new evidence.

If a big chunk of Swift-Tuttle were to make it to ground, it could be a day ruining event.  Chicken Little would be vindicated.

At least you won't need an Perseid Meteor Soap for this shower.

Answer 2

about 1:15,567 will hit the earth :)

Answer 3

Well, to understand what creates a "shower', you have to understand what it is.... In the past, there was a short-duration comet, that orbited the sun.  The comet, over the centuries, eventually boiled away all the gases and water that made it a 'comet', and the particles that made up the tail of this comet eventually spread out all along it's orbit.  Now, once a year, the Earth's orbit intersects the approximate orbit of where the comet used to be, encountering the particls that used to be a part of the comet.  The odds of a chunk big enough to survive the trip down through the Earth's atmosphere coming from this comet is very, very low, but not zero, as *probably* the chunks of debris that boiled off the comet are the size of grains of sand, or less.  

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Nope! Not a one!  Technically, one that reaches the earth is called a Meteorite. So no meteors will touch the earth.