SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -A meteor, sometimes called a shooting star or a falling star, is actually a space rock that is crashing through Earth’s atmosphere. This meteor is streaking across the sky above Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013. A meteor is a streak of light in the sky caused by a meteoroid crashing through Earth’s atmosphere.

Detailed explanation-2: -Comets are also known by the name of shooting stars.

Detailed explanation-3: -They enter the atmosphere with high speeds. At such high speeds the the friction between the air and the meteor generates enough heat to ignite the meteor, It glows and evaporates quickly. That is why the bright steak lasts for a very short time and appears like a shooting star, Was this answer helpful?

Detailed explanation-4: -When meteoroids enter the Earth’s surface, they get heated up due to friction with the air, which causes them to burn out. These are then called meteors and they are sometimes visible as shooting stars.