SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -A meteor is a streak of light in the sky caused by a meteoroid crashing through Earth’s atmosphere. Meteoroids are lumps of rock or iron that orbit the sun.

Detailed explanation-2: -A meteor is the streak of light that you see in the sky when a small piece of cometary or asteroidalmaterial enters the atmosphere at high speed and burns up because of the frictional heating from the piece’s collision with the atoms and moleculesin the atmosphere.

Detailed explanation-3: -These brief streaks of light (often called “shooting stars”) are meteors. Meteorites are rocks from space that actually have landed on Earth’s-or another planet’s-surface. Meteor showers occur when Earth passes through the trail of dust and gas left by a comet along its elliptical orbit.

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: -When you see the bright flash of a meteor, what are you actually seeing? The glow from a pea-sized particle and the surrounding air as the particle burns up in our atmosphere (In other words, you do not see the particle itself, but only the effects it has on the surrounding air as it burns up.)