The Lyrids radiate from the constellation Lyra (although they have nothing to do with it directly), which is near the bright ...

When a meteor smacks down it becomes a meteorite ... 66 million years ago), or the biggest single chunk (that may be Hoba, the 66-tonner that arrived 80,000 years ago in what is now Namibia ...

They can be grain-sized, or even weigh a few thousand pounds. The Hoba Iron meteorite, for example, weighs 66 tons. But they can also be amazingly small. “Meteors fly by the ISS all the time ...

Part of the Chelyabinsk meteorite, recovered from Lake Chebarkul. The largest known meteorite is the Hoba meteorite which fell in Namibia in 1920 and is etimated to weigh around 60 tonnes (60,000kg).