The phrase make landfall means
to reach land after a journey by sea or air
and this describes exactly how a meteoroid arrives to become a meteorite. Indeed it describes the arrival of a space rock far better than the arrival of a ship, which does not fall to land, or a plane, which must not fall to land.
The meteorite made landfall
Otherwise it could be a falling star or a shooting star if its attempt to immigrate with a new name fails.