SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Meteors are quick flashes of light that streak across the sky caused by space rocks burning up as they fall through the Earth’s atmosphere at high speed – blink and you could miss it.

Detailed explanation-2: -Meteors are streaks of light in the sky that we can see when a small speck of dust burns up high in the air above us.

Detailed explanation-3: -Called a bolide, these are meteors bright enough to flash and cast shadows, and they explore above your head several times each year. A bolide is technically a fireball that explodes in the atmosphere.

Detailed explanation-4: -When they enter our atmosphere as meteors, their resistance with the surrounding air creates intense heat, which in most cases vaporizes them to dust long before they reach the ground. The brightest meteors, called bolides, make quite a flash when they explode in the Earth’s atmosphere.

Detailed explanation-5: -Most of the time, meteors look like white flashes of light. Occasionally you can see colors flaring in them. Those colors indicate something about the chemistry of the region in the atmosphere it flies through and the material contained in the debris. Orange-ish light indicates atmospheric sodium being heated.