Since meteors move through the sky so quickly , we often refer to something moving very fast as meteoric . For example: A newly popular singer might be said to experience a meteoric rise to the top. read more
We have had had highly populated areas only in the last 2000 or 3000 years. Big Rocks do not fall that frequently. So all the places where the big rocks did fall were unpopulated or barely populated That is because the fell long before human population was large. read more