SOLAR SYSTEM

UNIVERSE

COMETS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A streak of light in our atmosphere is a ____
A
Meteor
B
Comet
C
Asteroid
D
Falling/Shooting Star
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Meteors. If a meteoroid comes close enough to Earth and enters Earth’s atmosphere, it vaporizes and turns into a meteor: a streak of light in the sky. Because of their appearance, these streaks of light are sometimes called “shooting stars.” But meteors are not actually stars.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: A stripe of light in the sky generated by the burning of a meteoroid in the environment of Earth is described as a meteor. It is a speck of glow in the air. It may widely be perceived as a shooting star or a falling star.

Detailed explanation-3: -Complete answer: Many meteorites are formed from a collision of asteroids that rotate around the sun between the tracks of Mars and Jupiter in the region called the asteroid belt. As asteroids break into each other, they produce loose debris-meteoroids.

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