Meteorites are pieces of asteroids, the Moon, Mars or perhaps even comets. The fall of meteorites on Earth is largely random. Meteorites are found from the tropics to the poles. A meteorite is usually named after a place near where is was seen to fall.
Meteorites can fall at any time of day, but most fall in the afternoon or evening.
Such falls are favored because, as the Earth spins, the hemisphere with noon to midnight local time encounters objects in orbit around the Sun that are closing in on the Earth. In this case, capture by the Earth's gravity is more likely. On the contrary, objects that pass in front of the hemisphere with local time between midnight and noon are pulling away from the Earth. In this case gravity is less likely to pull in the object. Bodies in orbit around the Sun are called meteoroids if there is a chance that they may at some time land on the Earth.