What are Meteor showers?

It is a tiny piece of cosmic debris which has entered the earth’s atmosphere at great speed and vaporized. As the earth moves around the sun in it’s orbit, the planet encounters a trail debris. This trail was left in the path of a comet which has gone across the path of the earth’s orbit on it’s own way around the sun and back out to the outer solar system. Comets are famously called ‘dirty snowballs’ as they are made up of ice and rocks. As comets approach the sun, they begin to melt, shedding pieces of themselves in their path which is visible as the comet’s tail. These pieces of the comet spread out a little, but mostly remain in the path which the comet took around the sun. When the earth crosses this path the comet particles encounter the earth’s atmosphere and burn, resulting in a meteor.

Done by : Tan Imm Joo [18]

: S3-Sincerity'09

: 27.07.09

¶ 9:45 PM