Most meteors are the size of a grain of sand or smaller, traveling 20 or 30 miles per second before slamming into the atmosphere. Seeing one is almost a supernatural experience, because the natural expectation is a sky that never changes. But it’s just a grain of dust going at speeds outside our mundane experience.
That dust could be carcinogenic. What could science ever do about that?
I happened to be looking in the right place at the right time once and saw one as it traced across the sky. It was larger than usual, visible for perhaps a half second. It was spinning; its brightness changed rapidly and periodically. This happened thirty years ago.