On a cold winter night in 1910, a 600-pound meteorite lying on a sidewalk in Carrington disappeared and was never seen again. Thousands of meteors enter Earth’s atmosphere every single day, but only a few survive to hit the dirt. For example, on this date in 1992, thousands of people heard a sonic boom, then watched as a meteor burst into flames and streaked across the eastern sky. A thirty-pound chunk of the meteor hit a parked car in New York state.