Are the exact measurements known of how big a meteor needs to be to breach the atmosphere and land on Earth versus burn up in it and disappear?

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Are the exact measurements known of how big a meteor needs to be to breach the atmosphere and land on Earth versus burn up in it and disappear?

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*typical masses of recovered meteorites are in the mass range 100 to 10000 grams; typical lengths are about 3 to 30 cm.*

https://meteorites.ucla.edu/faq/

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