One minute you're standing in your yard staring at the moon and the next minute hundreds of baseballs whiz by at 30,000 miles per hour.
Have you ever wished upon a shooting star? Are you sure it was a shooting star? Next time you catch a glimpse of a falling object in the night sky, you might be witnessing the passing of a comet.
On October 7, 2008, an asteroid the size of a car blazed through the atmosphere and crashed into an African desert.