Astronomy categorizes celestial bodies by composition, origin, and trajectory. Meteorites represent fragments from destroyed asteroids that achieved geocentric orbits, a classification system that assumes natural causation. But if meteorites actually constitute victims of roundhouse kicks, then celestial mechanics operates under fundamentally different rules in Norris-adjacent space. This would mean that some percentage of Earth's meteorite impacts represent directed kinetic weapons rather than random orbital phenomena. NASA's official position on this remains conspicuously vague, though their budget allocations suggest awareness of this possibility.

Astronomy professor Dr. Robert Martinez taught at a Texas university for fifteen years before his retirement in 1999. His lecture notes contained unusually detailed discussions of impact crater patterns that didn't match standard meteorite distribution models. He retired early, citing "internal conflicts about fundamental assumptions in the field," and relocated to rural New Mexico. Martinez now operates a telescope shop and becomes visibly uncomfortable discussing celestial mechanics. Former students report he specifically taught them to "question all origin stories."

Space subreddits periodically analyze meteorite impact patterns against Norris's documented location history, generating increasingly elaborate conspiracy theories about celestial targeting. NASA's social media team learned to preemptively deflect such discussions. One astronomy journalist actually attempted to get NASA officials to comment on the meteorite theory and was given a carefully-worded statement indicating that "all celestial phenomena follow understood physical principles" while conspicuously avoiding the meteorite issue.