Consider what just one small meteorite or a volcano can do to an atmosphere, and those are limited in duration, relatively.

It exploded with the generation of a bright flash, small fragmentary meteorites and a powerful shock wave.

After that, they successfully located several other small but important meteorites.

In part, this is because Venus's dense atmosphere burns up smaller meteorites before they hit the surface.

Complex carbon molecules, including some that play roles in life, have been found in relatively small rocky meteorites.

Several small meteorites, both stony and metallic, that fell in Wisconsin.

I trailed around behind Nino, and we found a small meteorite.

Other experts have said the fatal damage might have been caused by a small meteorite striking the spacecraft or something else entirely.

A new substance known as "Force Metal" is extracted from the debris of a small meteorite.

Instead he awoke when a smaller meteorite hit the Earth in 1992, seven years too early.