How big does a meteor have to be to make it to the ground

How big does a meteor have to be to make it to the ground

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Where I live it is pretty common to see "shooting stars" -- streaks of light in the sky at night. How big is a shooting star? Do they land on earth or do they burn up? Do they land on the ground as meteorites?

In theory could an asteroid be large enough to, upon impacting the far side of the Moon, knock the Moon off present orbit and into an orbit that could slowly (say within

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