@kritiper As Loli’s link discusses, yeah, if you can “violently throw” something at the speed of a hard-hit golf ball, about 300 kilometers per HOUR, you could get it to gradually fall out of orbit… though it would still be flying sideways relative to the earth at something like 17,800 kilometers per hour, and slip into the atmosphere’s outer layers, slowly heating up.
Meanwhile, a meteor streaks in at 11 to 72 kilometers per SECOND, which is between 40,000 and 260,000 kilometers per hour, coming more or less directly in to the planet.