well, technically, doesn't a meteor kinda just travel in a singular direction until it impacts with enough speed to stop travelling?
So it's not really "plummeting" as such, but more gliding?
(Poppet some assembly required., Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:00, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Yes.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:05, Reply)

but are we talking
about a meteor in space or one once its entered Earth's atmosphere?
(greatoldone Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl f'tagn, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:09, Reply)

*shrugs*
www.faqs.org/faqs/astronomy/faq/part5/section-29.html
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:12, Reply)

well it'd depend on size I guess, and the speed at which it was travelling.
I mean if it was average - small size and moving kinda slow, I don't think it'd decend as such, more be pulled into our gravitational field. But if it was really really big or really small and travelling really fast, I don't think that it'd fall, it'd just keep going in the same direction until it collides with something.
(Poppet some assembly required., Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:14, Reply)

They're asteroids in space.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:16, Reply)

So less of an issue than haemorrhoids in space?

(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:46, Reply)