EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Comets shed particles that appear as a dusty trail behind the “dirty snowball” of rock, ice, and gas that makes up the comet’s nucleus. As Earth passes through a comet’s tail, the rocky debris collides with our atmosphere, creating the colorful streaks of a meteor shower.

Detailed explanation-2: -A meteor shower is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to radiate, or originate, from one point in the night sky. These meteors are caused by streams of cosmic debris called meteoroids entering Earth’s atmosphere at extremely high speeds on parallel trajectories.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the case of a meteor shower, the glowing streaks may appear anywhere in the sky, but their “tails” all seem to point back to the same spot in the sky. That’s because all the meteors are coming at us at the same angle, and as they get closer to Earth the effect of perspective makes them seem to get farther apart.

Detailed explanation-4: -Meteoroids are small particles-often no bigger than a grain of sand-that orbit our Sun. When meteoroids enter Earth’s atmosphere, they produce brilliant streaks of light that can be seen in our sky. These brief streaks of light-and the particles that are moving through our atmosphere-are meteors.

Detailed explanation-5: -Asteroid fragment consists of carbon, and they burn and enter the atmosphere of the earth. This reaction might lead to a combustion reaction. Combustion reactions lead to the double bond reaction between carbon and oxygen.