UNIVERSE
ASTEROIDS
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the breakup of asteroids that hit our atmosphere at predictable times
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passing asteroids triggering auroral displays
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The Earth passing through the debris left behind by a comet as it moves through the inner Solar System
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nuclear reactions in the upper atmosphere triggered by an abnormally large meteoritic particle entering the Earth’s atmosphere.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Meteor showers occur annually or at regular intervals as the Earth passes through the trail of dusty debris left by a comet. Meteor showers are usually named after a star or constellation that is close to where the meteors appear in the sky. Perhaps the most famous are the Perseids, which peak in August every year.
Detailed explanation-2: -A meteor shower occurs when the Earth passes through the trail of debris left by a comet or asteroid. 2. Meteors are bits of rocks and ice ejected from comets as they move in their orbits about the sun.
Detailed explanation-3: -Meteor showers are the result of debris left behind by the passage of a decaying comet. Meteor showers result when asteroids collide and this debris showers the inner solar system. stay sixty degrees ahead of or behind Jupiter. lie almost entirely beyond the orbit of Neptune.
Detailed explanation-4: -For all meteor showers, the meteors you see are made almost exclusively by sand-to pea-sized objects that ablate away in the atmosphere and never hit the ground. If you see a meteor during an annual meteor shower, then you are not going to find the meteorite.
Detailed explanation-5: -All meteorites come from inside our solar system. Most of them are fragments of asteroids that broke apart long ago in the asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter.